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  Paris (ESA) Feb 03, 2020 The first European device to land on the Moon this decade will be a drill and sample analysis package, and the teams behind it are one step closer to flight as part of Russia's Luna-27 mission. The main goal of the Luna-27 lander is to study the composition of the soil near the lunar south pole. Water is a key target: there may be concentrations of frozen water at or below the surface. A major European contribution to the mission is Prospect, a robotic drill and a miniature laboratory with a ... read more |
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NASA funds demonstration of assembly and manufacturing in spaceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 03, 2020 NASA has awarded a $142 million contract to Maxar Technologies of Westminster, Colorado, to robotically assemble a communications antenna and manufacture a spacecraft beam in orbit. The technology d ... more  
From Antarctica to space: telemedicine at the limitParis (ESA) Jan 31, 2020 ESA is working with Argentina to test telemedicine device Tempus Pro in the harsh conditions of Antarctica as Europe prepares for its next phase of human exploration in space. The development ... more  
Astronomers witness the dragging of space-time in stellar cosmic danceCanberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 31, 2020 An international team of astrophysicists led by Australian Professor Matthew Bailes, from the ARC Centre of Excellence of Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), has shown exciting new evidence for ' ... more 
Pulsar-white dwarf binary system confirms general relativistic frame-draggingWashington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2020 A century after it was first theorized, researchers have detected the effects of Lense-Thirring precession - an effect of relativistic frame-dragging - in the motion of a distant binary star system, ... more |
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AI could deceive us as much as the human eye does in the search for extraterrestrialsMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 29, 2020 An artificial neural network has identified a square structure within a triangular one in a crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, with several people agreeing on this perception. The result of this intr ... more 
Progressing towards assuredly safer autonomous systemsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 03, 2020 The sophistication of autonomous systems currently being developed across various domains and industries has markedly increased in recent years, due in large part to advances in computing, modeling, ... more  
Two satellites just avoided a head-on smash. How close did they come to disaster?Sydney, Australia (The Conservation) Jan 31, 2020 It appears we have missed another close call between two satellites - but how close did we really come to a catastrophic event in space? It all began with a series of tweets from LeoLabs, a co ... more 
OFFSET Swarm Systems Integrators Demonstrate Tactics to Conduct Urban RaidWashington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2020 In its third field experiment, DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program deployed swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles to demonstrate a raid in an urban area. The OFFSET progr ... more 
Suspected space debris breaks into pieces over Southern CaliforniaWashington DC (UPI) Jan 31, 2020 Southern California residents captured video when suspected space debris lit up the night sky and broke into multiple pieces. Videos captured by residents in San Diego, Los Angeles and the sur ... more |
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 Tethers Unlimited reports successful operation of space-debris removal device 
Iron nanorobots show their true mettleThuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jan 29, 2020 Drug-coated iron nanowires that can be guided to the site of a tumor using an external magnetic field before activating a three-step cancer-killing mechanism could provide an effective option for ca ... more  |
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To make amino acids, just add electricityFukuoka, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 New research from Kyushu University in Japan could one day help provide humans living away from Earth some of the nutrients they need to survive in space or even give clues to how life started. ... more  
Roscosmos to rename Russia's asteroid detection system to 'Milky Way'Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 29, 2020 The Russian automated tool of monitoring hazardous situations in near-Earth space will be given a new name of "Milky Way," the first deputy director of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yury Urlichich ... more 
Progressing Towards Assuredly Safer Autonomous SystemsWashington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2020 The sophistication of autonomous systems currently being developed across various domains and industries has markedly increased in recent years, due in large part to advances in computing, modeling, ... more 
AFRL And Blue Origin partner on test site for BE-7 lunar lander engine developmentEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2020 The Air Force Research Laboratory and Blue Origin are developing a new test facility for the Blue Origin BE-7 lunar lander engine at the AFRL rocket lab here. Capital improvements, funded by B ... more
Space telescope could collide with junked military satelliteMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 29, 2020 Observers fear a collision of the two long-dead space objects could spew space junk across a broad area of near space, affecting satellites which are still in operation. The Infrared Astronomi ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 
Presently, Earth is the only known location where life exists in the Universe. This year the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three astronomers who proved, almost 20 years ago, that planets are common around stars beyond the solar system.
Life comes in various forms, from cell-phone-toting organisms like humans to the ubiquitous micro-organisms that inhabit almost every square inch of ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Jan 30, 2020 
A Japanese billionaire who launched a public search for a girlfriend willing to join him on a trip into space abruptly cancelled the hunt on Thursday, despite attracting nearly 30,000 applicants.
Yusaku Maezawa earlier this month said he was looking for a mate willing to join him when he heads on a trip around the Moon in 2023 or later, as the first private passenger on a voyage offered by E ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 
Have a good-sized telescope with a digital camera? Then you can team up with NASA's New Horizons mission this spring on a really cool - and record-setting - deep-space experiment.
In April, New Horizons, which by then will be more than 46 times farther from the Sun than Earth, nearing 5 billion miles (8 billion kilometers) from home, will be used to detect "shifts" in the relative position ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 29, 2020 
An artificial neural network has identified a square structure within a triangular one in a crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, with several people agreeing on this perception. The result of this intriguing visual experiment, carried out by a Spanish neuropsychologist, calls into question the application of artificial intelligence to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI).
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 03, 2020 
U.S. launch company Rocket Lab launched a U.S. spy satellite from New Zealand on Thursday.
"Successful Electron lift-off!" RocketLab tweeted on Friday afternoon in New Zealand.
The company had experienced a few delays for the launch due to ground-level winds, but otherwise, the mission reportedly went off without any problems.
It was Rocket Lab's first launch of 2020, from the ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2020 
China plans to launch more space science satellites in the coming three to four years, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The satellites will be used to detect electromagnetic signals associated with gravitational waves, solar eruption activities, astronomy and the interaction between solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 29, 2020 
The Russian automated tool of monitoring hazardous situations in near-Earth space will be given a new name of "Milky Way," the first deputy director of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yury Urlichich, said on Tuesday.
"We have decided to rename the system to 'Milky Way.' As of today, it is called the NES ASPOS [Warning Automated System of Hazardous Situations in near-Earth Space]", Urlichic ... more |
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 Kirtland NM (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 
The Air Force Research Laboratory has developed a unique directed energy weapon demonstrator called the High-power Adaptive Directed Energy System, or HADES, that completed field testing in 2019."HADES technology was designed with the warfighter in mind," said the AFRL program manager Dan Marker. "The system works by combining a large number of high power fiber lasers in a fashion that corrects ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 30, 2020 
The United States is awaiting a green light from the Iraqi government to deploy Patriot missile defense systems to protect US troops from Iranian missile attacks, Pentagon chief Mark Esper said Thursday.
Iran launched 11 missiles at a US air base at Ain al-Assad and another at a base in Erbil on January 8 in retaliation for the killing days earlier of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a US ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 
A Southwest Research Institute team developed a new geochemical model that reveals that carbon dioxide (CO2) from within Enceladus, an ocean-harboring moon of Saturn, may be controlled by chemical reactions at its seafloor. Studying the plume of gases and frozen sea spray released through cracks in the moon's icy surface suggests an interior more complex than previously thought.
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 Sapporo, Japan (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 
Researchers have discovered a method to control biomolecular machines over a wide temperature range using deep-sea osmolyte trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). This finding could open a new dimension in the application of artificial machines fabricated from biomolecular motors and other proteins.
Biomolecular motors are the smallest natural machines that keep living organisms dynamic. They can ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 
If you jump out of bed too quickly, you might feel a bit light-headed.
That's because when you're lying down, gravity causes your blood to pool in the lower parts of your body rather than in your brain. Fortunately, when you stand up, within a fraction of a second, your heart begins beating faster, moving the blood to your brain and allowing you to maintain your balance.
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 St. Louis MO (SPX) Feb 03, 2020 
Physicists at Washington University in St. Louis have proposed a way to use data from ultra-high energy neutrinos to study interactions beyond the standard model of particle physics. The 'Zee burst' model leverages new data from large neutrino telescopes such as the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica and its future extensions.
"Neutrinos continue to intrigue us and stretch our imag ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 03, 2020 
NASA has awarded a $142 million contract to Maxar Technologies of Westminster, Colorado, to robotically assemble a communications antenna and manufacture a spacecraft beam in orbit. The technology demonstration is slated to take place on NASA's Restore-L spacecraft, designed to service and refuel a satellite in low-Earth orbit.
The Restore-L spacecraft will be modified to accommodate a pay ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB CO (SPX) Jan 27, 2020 
The Air Force Research Laboratory, along with partner Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc., completed the successful fourth flight test of the XQ-58A Valkyrie low-cost unmanned air vehicle demonstrator Jan. 23, 2020, at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.
During the test event, the Valkyrie demonstrator's flight successfully met all of the test objectives, and the envelope was expanded be ... more |
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