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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 07, 2019 In this picture from Sept. 28, 2019, engineers and technicians working on the assembly and testing of the Mars 2020 spacecraft look on as a crane lifts the rocket-powered descent stage away from the rover. They've just completed a successful separation test at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "Firing the pyrotechnic devices that held the rover and descent stage together and then doing the post-test inspection of the two vehicles was an all-day affair," said Ryan van Schili ... read more |
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NASA seeks industry input on hardware production for lunar spacesuitWashington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 When the first woman and next man step foot on the Moon in 2024, they will be wearing the next generation of spacesuits designed to give astronauts enhanced mobility to accomplish their exploration ... more 
India's 2nd lunar mission orbiter detects charged particles on MoonNew Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 07, 2019 Even though India's second Lunar Mission, Chandrayaan-2, failed to soft-land on the surface of the Moon, the country's space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was able to save th ... more  
Controlling robots across oceans and spaceParis (ESA) Oct 04, 2019 This Autumn is seeing a number of experiments controlling robots from afar, with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano directing a robot in The Netherlands and engineers in Germany controlling a rover in Can ... more 
UK eases sanctions on Moscow to allow activities related to joint space mission to MarsLondon, UK (Sputnik) Oct 04, 2019 The United Kingdom has eased sanctions on Russia by amending its Export Control Order 2014 to allow for certain activities necessary for the ExoMars-2020 joint Russia-EU space mission. "Articl ... more |
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ESA announces plans on first European manned mission to the moonParis (Sputnik) Oct 02, 2019 A key step in the first-ever European manned lunar mission for the European Space Agency (ESA) will be the establishment of an international space station in lunar orbit - to be dubbed the 'Gateway' ... more  
Giant exoplanet around tiny star challenges understanding of how planets formGottingen, Germany (SPX) Sep 30, 2019 An international team of researchers with participation from the University of Gottingen has discovered the first large gas giant orbiting a small star. The planet was found orbiting the nearby red ... more  
Astroscale and Southampton jointly advance business case for active debris removal servicesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 02, 2019 Astroscale, the market-leader in developing a service to remove space debris and secure long-term orbital sustainability, has announced that it will collaborate with the University of Southampton on ... more 
ESA selects AdaCore's qualified multitasking solution for spacecraft software developmentNewport UK (SPX) Sep 27, 2019 AdaCore reports that the European Space Agency (ESA) has selected AdaCore to provide a qualified multitasking solution for spacecraft software development to support multiple ongoing and future ESA ... more 
Scientists develop unique orbital cleanerSamara, Russia (Sputnik) Oct 02, 2019 The "debris" threat to the work of active satellites is becoming increasingly critical. In the spring of this year, a $400-million Boeing satellite weighing more than 6.5 tonnes was destroyed as a r ... more |
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Life's building blocks may have formed in interstellar cloudsSapporo, Japan (SPX) Sep 30, 2019 An experiment shows that one of the basic units of life - nucleobases - could have originated within giant gas clouds interspersed between the stars. Essential building blocks of DNA - compoun ... more  |
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Vietnamese roll out Transformers-inspired robot with green messageHanoi (AFP) Oct 4, 2019 There is more than meets the eye to the towering robot resembling a character from the "Transformers" movie franchise - it speaks Vietnamese and is made from spare motorbike parts. ... more  
Illinois researchers develop new framework for nanoantenna light absorptionUrbana IL (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 Harnessing light's energy into nanoscale volumes requires novel engineering approaches to overcome a fundamental barrier known as the "diffraction limit." However, University of Illinois researchers ... more 
NASA designing shapeshifting robots for Saturn's moonsPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 26, 2019 Mini robots that can roll, fly, float and swim, then morph into a single machine? Together they form Shapeshifter, a developing concept for a transformational vehicle to explore treacherous, distant ... more 
Fedor a first step to future of teams of robot cosmonautsMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 25, 2019 Russia's Skybot F-850, better known as the FEDOR ('Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research') humanoid robot, successfully completed his trip to the International Space Station earlier this ... more 
Celestia Technologies Group UK gears up for eScan expansion in the UKHarwell UK (SPX) Sep 27, 2019 Celestia Technologies UK Ltd (Celestia UK) is gearing up for the further development and commercialisation of its next generation, electronic scanning (eScan), phased array ground station by making ... more |
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 London, UK (Sputnik) Oct 04, 2019 
The United Kingdom has eased sanctions on Russia by amending its Export Control Order 2014 to allow for certain activities necessary for the ExoMars-2020 joint Russia-EU space mission.
"Article 3 also amends the description of the activities which require prior authorisation under Article 4(2b) of the Russia Sanctions Regulation in article 5 of the 2014 Order to reflect amendments to that ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 
When the first woman and next man step foot on the Moon in 2024, they will be wearing the next generation of spacesuits designed to give astronauts enhanced mobility to accomplish their exploration tasks on the lunar surface. NASA is currently designing and developing a new spacesuit system, called the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit or xEMU, for use during Artemis missions at the Moon ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 02, 2019 
Last night, NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver - extraordinarily long by mission standards. The goal of the burn, as it's known, will keep the solar-powered spacecraft out of what would have been a mission-ending shadow cast by Jupiter on the spacecraft during its next close flyby of the planet on Nov. 3, 2019.
Juno began the maneuver yeste ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Sep 30, 2019 
An international team of researchers with participation from the University of Gottingen has discovered the first large gas giant orbiting a small star. The planet was found orbiting the nearby red dwarf star GJ 3512. This discovery challenges scientists' very understanding of how planets form: low-mass stars should have less available material to form planets.
Moreover, this new gas giant ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 4, 2019 
Virgin Orbit, a private company planning launches of orbital satellites, announced that a Royal Air Force pilot will join its team.
Flight Lt. Mathew Stannard will join the Virgin Orbit program in a three-year contract. He will be one of the company's pilots in the trials of Boeing 747-400 aircraft from which satellites will be launched. The announcement was made on Thursday in Californ ... more |
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 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 |
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 La Palma, Spain (SPX) Oct 01, 2019 
An international team of astronomers have made a historic discovery using the William Herschel Telescope (WHT), detecting gas molecules in a comet which has tumbled into our solar system from another star. It is the first time that astronomers have been able to detect this type of material in an interstellar object.
The discovery marks an important step forward for science as it will now a ... 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 (UPI) Oct 4, 2019 
Russia is aiding China in building a missile defense system able to counter ballistic and cruise missiles, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed.
He added that Russian involvement will give China a measure of protection which only the United States and Russia currently have. China now has only a small, Russian-made S-300 system regarded as a modest deterrent.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 03, 2019 
New kinds of organic compounds, the ingredients of amino acids, have been detected in the plumes bursting from Saturn's moon Enceladus. The findings are the result of the ongoing deep dive into data from NASA's Cassini mission.
Powerful hydrothermal vents eject material from Enceladus' core, which mixes with water from the moon's massive subsurface ocean before it is released into space as ... more |
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 Bath UK (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
A new nanomaterial developed by scientists at the University of Bath could solve a conundrum faced by scientists probing some of the most promising types of future pharmaceuticals.
Scientists who study the nanoscale - with molecules and materials 10,000 smaller than a pinhead - need to be able to test the way that some molecules twist, known as their chirality, because mirror image molecul ... more |
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 03, 2019 
Astronomers have pieced together the cannibalistic past of our neighbouring large galaxy Andromeda, which has now set its sights on the Milky Way as its next main course.
The galactic detective work found that Andromeda has eaten several smaller galaxies, likely within the last few billion years, with left-overs found in large streams of stars.
ANU researcher Dr Dougal Mackey, who co ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 04, 2019 
Dark matter was likely the starting ingredient for brewing up the very first galaxies in the universe. Shortly after the Big Bang, particles of dark matter would have clumped together in gravitational "halos," pulling surrounding gas into their cores, which over time cooled and condensed into the first galaxies.
Although dark matter is considered the backbone to the structure of the univer ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 04, 2019 
This Autumn is seeing a number of experiments controlling robots from afar, with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano directing a robot in The Netherlands and engineers in Germany controlling a rover in Canada.
Imagine looking down at the Moon from the Gateway as you prepare to land near a lunar base to run experiments, but you know the base needs maintenance work on the life-support system that w ... more |
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 Istanbul (AFP) Sept 29, 2019 
Turkey's air force on Sunday downed an unidentified drone on the Syrian border after it breached Turkish air space six times, the defence ministry said.
"An unmanned aerial vehicle which violated our air space six times (on Saturday)... was downed by two of our F-16s which took off from Incirlik" air base in southern Turkey, the defence ministry said, sharing pictures of the downed drone. ... more |
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