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  Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 13, 2020 In August, a robotic spacecraft will make NASA's first-ever attempt to descend to the surface of an asteroid, collect a sample, and ultimately bring it safely back to Earth. In order to achieve this challenging feat, the OSIRIS-REx mission team devised new techniques to operate in asteroid Bennu's microgravity environment - but they still need experience flying the spacecraft in close proximity to the asteroid in order to test them. So, before touching down at sample site Nightingale this summer, OSIRIS ... read more |
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Mars Helicopter attached to Perseverance Mars roverKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 10, 2020 With the launch period of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover opening in 14 weeks, final preparations of the spacecraft continue at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the past week, the assembl ... more  
Help Pave the Way for Artemis: Send NASA Your Mini Moon Payload DesignsPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 13, 2020 Future exploration of the Moon and beyond will require tools of all shapes and sizes - from sweeping orbiters to the tiniest of rovers. In addition to current planned scientific rovers like the Vola ... more 
Apollo 13's 50th anniversary recalls NASA tragedy turned triumphWashington DC (UPI) Apr 10, 2020 The 50th anniversary of Apollo 13's launch on Saturday recalls a NASA tragedy that turned into a triumph of training and innovation. ... more  
DARPA program to build travel adapter for human bodyWashington DC (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 Warfighters are travelers and thus suffer from travelers' ailments including disrupted sleep cycles and limited access to safe food and water. Warfighters who have not slept well have lower alertnes ... more |
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When the Moon dust settles, it won't settle in VIPER's wheelsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 Moon dust is a formidable adversary - the grains are as fine as powder and as sharp as tiny shards of glass. During the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon, the astronauts lamented how the dust found its ... more 
Space Tango wins NASA utilization awards for LEO Commercialization of biomedical applicationsLexington, KY (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 Space Tang reports it has been awarded funding for three projects focused on biomedical application development on the International Space Station (ISS) that will be supported by the NASA Research O ... more 
Journey to a metallic world called PsycheTempe AZ (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 The Arizona State University-led NASA Psyche mission, which is planned to launch in 2022, will travel to an asteroid named Psyche, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. This asteroid is of part ... more  
Robots may become heroes in war on coronavirusSan Francisco (AFP) April 9, 2020 Long maligned as job-stealers and aspiring overlords, robots are being increasingly relied on as fast, efficient, contagion-proof champions in the war against the deadly coronavirus. ... more  
L3Harris Technologies to modernize US capabilities to detect orbital objectsMelbourne FLw (SPX) Apr 03, 2020 L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a $23 million contract to modernize and sustain critical space infrastructure used by the military to keep track of activities and objects in space. The curren ... more |
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Swiss 'hackathon' seeks new paths in virus battleGeneva (AFP) April 6, 2020 More than 5,000 people took part over the weekend in a virtual "hackathon" in Switzerland to generate fresh ideas for how to deal with and combat COVID-19, organisers said Monday. ... more  |
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Using augmented reality to prepare Orion hardwareKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 02, 2020 Augmented reality, also known as AR, is a powerful tool that engineers are using to enable NASA to send humans to the Moon under the agency's Artemis program. Lockheed Martin, lead contractor for NA ... more  
Salmon parasite is world's first non-oxygen breathing animalWashington DC (UPI) Feb 26, 2020 Scientists have discovered an unusual species of parasite hiding the muscles of salmon. The tiny species, comprised of just ten cells, is unlike all other animals known to science. The species, Henneguya salminicola, doesn't breathe oxygen. ... more 
Sulfur 'spices' alien atmospheresBaltimore MD (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 They say variety is the spice of life, and now new discoveries from Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that a certain elemental 'variety' - sulfur - is indeed a 'spice' that can perhaps point to sign ... more 
Xplore receives USAF award for innovative commercial capabilities around the MoonSeattle WA (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 Xplore reports it has won an Air Force award to study positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) solutions for cislunar space. The award category, for commercial and technical innovations between the ... more  
Parachutes guide China's rocket debris safely to earthBeijing (XNA) Apr 07, 2020 China has been testing high-tech parachutes to control rocket debris and make space launches safer, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT). During the March 9 launc ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 10, 2020 
With the launch period of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover opening in 14 weeks, final preparations of the spacecraft continue at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the past week, the assembly, test and launch operations team completed important milestones, fueling the descent stage - also known as the sky crane - and attaching the Mars Helicopter, which will be the first aircraft in hist ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 13, 2020 
Future exploration of the Moon and beyond will require tools of all shapes and sizes - from sweeping orbiters to the tiniest of rovers. In addition to current planned scientific rovers like the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, NASA could one day send even smaller rovers to help scout the Moon's surface.
These tiny robots would provide mission flexibility and colle ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 
The ice giant Uranus' unusual attributes have long puzzled scientists. All of the planets in our Solar System revolve around the Sun in the same direction and in the same plane, which astronomers believe is a vestige of how our Solar System formed from a spinning disc of gas and dust. Most of the planets in our Solar System also rotate in the same direction, with their poles orientated perpendic ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 
Future technologies that could image Exo Planets, enable quicker trips to Mars and send robots to explore ocean worlds might have started out as NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC). The program, which invests in early-stage technology ideas from NASA, industry and academic researchers across the country, has selected 23 potentially revolutionary concepts with a total award value of $7 milli ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 08, 2020 
The coronavirus pandemic has delayed the launch of a GPS III satellite - the first postponement tied to the virus for a military space mission, the U.S. Space Force said.
The announcement Tuesday evening said the launch, previously planned for late April, would occur no earlier than June 30. The satellite is to be launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a Space ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 07, 2020 
China has been testing high-tech parachutes to control rocket debris and make space launches safer, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
During the March 9 launch of a Long March-3B rocket carrying a satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, a booster was equipped with parachutes and control devices.
After the booster separated from the rocke ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 13, 2020 
In August, a robotic spacecraft will make NASA's first-ever attempt to descend to the surface of an asteroid, collect a sample, and ultimately bring it safely back to Earth. In order to achieve this challenging feat, the OSIRIS-REx mission team devised new techniques to operate in asteroid Bennu's microgravity environment - but they still need experience flying the spacecraft in close proximity ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 10, 2020  Lockheed Martin was awarded a $22.4 million contract for work on the Layered Laser Defense system prototype onboard a Navy littoral combat ship, the Department of Defense announced.
The deal, announced Monday by the Pentagon, funds integration, demonstration, testing and operation of the LLD weapon system on board a vessel while the ship is underway.
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 Tehran (AFP) April 1, 2020 
Iran warned the US Wednesday that it was leading the Middle East to disaster in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic after it deployed Patriot air defence missiles to Iraq.
Washington had been in talks with Baghdad about the proposed deployment since January but it was not immediately clear whether it had secured its approval or not.
Iran, which wields huge influence in its western neig ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2020 
The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants - Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune - are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the high temperatures. Their heat source has been one of the great mysteries of planetary science.
New analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft finds a viable explanation for what's keeping ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
Through a technique known as DNA origami, scientists have created the fastest, most persistent DNA nano motor yet. Angewandte Chemie published the findings, which provide a blueprint for how to optimize the design of motors at the nanoscale - hundreds of times smaller than the typical human cell.
"Nanoscale motors have tremendous potential for applications in biosensing, in building synthe ... more |
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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 
A team from the University of Adelaide in South Australia are behind a new type of deformable mirror that could increase the sensitivity of ground-based gravitational wave detectors reaching into space.
Gravitational waves are faint ripples in space time caused by distant events like collisions between black holes or neutron stars.
These cosmic waves are detected at places like the A ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 
No matter where we look, the same rules apply everywhere in space: countless calculations of astrophysics are based on this basic principle. A recent study by the Universities of Bonn and Harvard, however, has thrown this principle into question. Should the measured values be confirmed, this would toss many assumptions about the properties of the universe overboard. The results are published in ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) April 9, 2020 
Long maligned as job-stealers and aspiring overlords, robots are being increasingly relied on as fast, efficient, contagion-proof champions in the war against the deadly coronavirus.
One team of robots temporarily cared for patients in a makeshift hospital in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the COVID-19 outbreak began.
Meals were served, temperatures taken and communications handled by mac ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 
The Air Force Research Laboratory has set up the Air Force's first high-energy laser weapon system overseas for a 12-month field assessment. The Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation (SDPE) Office located here is leading the project.
"The receiving combatant command will utilize this system as an operational asset against small unmanned aircraft systems for the durat ... more |
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