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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 A 30th birthday is a big milestone for anyone, and a spacecraft is no exception. Tomorrow, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 30th year in space, but it didn't get to this point without having to overcome its fair share of challenges. Over the years, it has not only been fixed, but continuously upgraded to make it the discovery-producing machine that it is today. Servicing (refueling, fixing and upgrading) spacecraft helps make spaceflight more sustainable, affordable and resilient. In honor of ... read more |
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Population of Interstellar Asteroids Found Hiding in Plain SightLondon, UK (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 A new study has identified the first known permanent population of asteroids originating from outside our solar system. The objects are believed to have been captured from other stars billions of ye ... more  
Promising signs for Perseverance rover in its quest for past Martian lifeStanford CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 New research indicates river delta deposits within Mars' Jezero crater - the destination of NASA' Perseverance rover on the Red Planet - formed over time scales that promoted habitability and enhanc ... more 
Asteroid visiting Earth's neighborhood brings its own face maskOrlando FL (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is following an asteroid approaching Earth this week and while it poses no threat, it appears to know our planet is facing a pandemic. "The small-scale t ... more  
Jupiter probe JUICE: Final integration in full swingFriedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 JUICE, the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, has reached its next milestone: On its Earthly journey via different Airbus sites in Europe the spacecraft has arrived at Airbus' satellite integration ... more |
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Yale's EXPRES looks to the skies of a scorching, distant planetNew Haven CT (SPX) Apr 23, 2020 Yale technology is giving astronomers a closer look at the atmosphere of a distant planet where it's so hot the air contains vaporized metals. The planet, MASCARA-2 b, is 140 parsecs from Eart ... more 
ASU scientists lead study of galaxy's 'water worlds'Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 Astrophysical observations have shown that Neptune-like water-rich exoplanets are common in our galaxy. These "water worlds" are believed to be covered with a thick layer of water, hundreds to thous ... more 
Intelsat 901 Satellite Returns to Service Using Northrop Grumman's Mission Extension VehicleDulles VA (SPX) Apr 20, 2020 Intelsat announced Friday that Intelsat 901 has returned to service following the successful docking with the first Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV-1) from Northrop Grumman Corporation and the compan ... 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 
New study reveals life's earliest evolution was more complicated than previously suspectedOxford UK (SPX) Apr 23, 2020 Biologists have long hoped to understand the nature of the earliest living organisms on Earth. If they could, they might then be able to say something about how, when, and where life arose on Earth, ... more |
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NASA develops COVID-19 prototype ventilator in 37 daysPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 24, 2020 A new high-pressure ventilator developed by NASA engineers and tailored to treat coronavirus (COVID-19) patients passed a critical test Tuesday at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New ... more  |
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New design could make fiber communications more energy efficientResearch Triangle Park NC (SPX) Apr 23, 2020 Researchers say a new discovery on a U.S. Army project for optoelectronic devices could help make optical fiber communications more energy efficient. The University of Pennsylvania, Peking Uni ... more 
Nanocardboard flyers could serve as martian atmospheric probesPhiladelphia PA (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 This summer, NASA plans to launch its next Mars rover, Perseverance, which will carry with it the first aircraft to ever fly on another planet, the Mars Helicopter. As the first of its kind, the Mar ... more 
Astronomers discover planet that never wasTucson AZ (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 What astronomers thought was a planet beyond our solar system has now seemingly vanished from sight, suggesting that what was heralded as one of the first exoplanets to ever be discovered with direc ... more 
Surface Hot Springs May Have Existed on Ancient MarsTucson AZ (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 Ancient Mars may have featured surface hot springs, according to research by PSI's Dorothy Oehler. Using new data from a Digital Terrain Model (derived from HiRISE images acquired with NASA's Mars R ... more 
Mars 2020 Perseverance rover gets balancedKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 With 13 weeks to go before the launch period of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover opens, final preparations of the spacecraft continue at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On April 8, the assem ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
New research indicates river delta deposits within Mars' Jezero crater - the destination of NASA' Perseverance rover on the Red Planet - formed over time scales that promoted habitability and enhanced preservation of evidence.
Undulating streaks of land visible from space reveal rivers once coursed across the Martian surface - but for how long did the water flow? Enough time to record evid ... more |
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 Flagstaff AZ (USGS) Apr 23, 2020 
Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history of our nearest neighbor in space.
For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified by scientists from the USGS, in collaboration with NASA and ... more |
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 Friedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
JUICE, the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, has reached its next milestone: On its Earthly journey via different Airbus sites in Europe the spacecraft has arrived at Airbus' satellite integration centre in Friedrichshafen (Germany) for final integration. Until the end of 2020 it will be kitted out with its final components including harness, power electronics, onboard computer, communication ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
Astrophysical observations have shown that Neptune-like water-rich exoplanets are common in our galaxy. These "water worlds" are believed to be covered with a thick layer of water, hundreds to thousands of miles deep, above a rocky mantle.
While water-rich exoplanets are common, their composition is very different from Earth, so there are many unknowns in terms of these planets' structure, ... more |
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 Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
Four 50th Wing Staff Agency Airmen attended a SpaceX briefing on its latest developments and future travel plans to the International Space Station, by Soichi Noguchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut, at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, April 17.
Col. Jack Fischer, 50th Space Wing vice commander and former NASA astronaut, shared the conference, "Preparing for flight aboard ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 
On Aug. 30, 2019, when amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov gazed upward with his homemade telescope, he spotted an object moving in an unusual direction. Now called 2I/Borisov, this runaway point of light turned out to be the first confirmed comet to enter our solar system from some unknown place beyond our Sun's influence. Astronomers everywhere rushed to take a look with some of the most powerf ... more |
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 Falls Church VA (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
The Counter-Rocket Artillery and Mortar (C-RAM) system of systems was deployed in 2005 to address a joint urgent operational need to defend our troops against rocket, artillery and mortar attacks in four primary pillars: sense, warn, intercept and respond.
Countless soldiers deployed over the past decade and a half have heard the jarring yet familiar "Incoming! Incoming!" siren warning in ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 14, 2020 
Last month, a subsidiary of S-500 maker Almaz-Antey confirmed that multiple components of the next generation air defence system had been developed and tested, with the completed complex to start testing with the military later this year.
The S-500 is not just a conventional air and missile defence system, but an anti-space weapon whose introduction will fundamentally change Russia's air d ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 13, 2020 
Scientists have developed a way to remotely control the release of adrenal hormones like adrenaline and cortisol.
Previous studies have linked problems with the regulation of hormones from the adrenal gland with mental health disorders, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The new research, detailed in the journal Science Advances, could help scientists investig ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 
The expectations of the gravitational-wave research community have been fulfilled: gravitational-wave discoveries are now part of their daily work as they have identified in the past observing run, O3, new gravitational-wave candidates about once a week. But now, the researchers have published a remarkable signal unlike any of those seen before: GW190412 is the first observation of a binary blac ... more |
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 Lancaster UK (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 
Lancaster physicists working on the T2K major international experiment in Japan are closing in on the mystery of why there is so much matter in the Universe, and so little antimatter.
The Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the early Universe but instead the Universe is made of matter. One of the greatest challenges in physics is to determine what happene ... 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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 San Clemente CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
Teams from Swift Tactical Systems, in partnership with its Japanese counterpart, Swift-Xi, both subsidiaries of Swift Engineering, completed personnel search and rescue and animal identification missions as part of a contract with Okayama Prefecture in Japan.
The proof of concept program validates Swift's unmanned aerial systems and capabilities under unique scenarios. First, the team's ab ... more |
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