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  Vilnius, Lithuania (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 The European Space Agency (ESA) has granted 1 million euros to nanosatellite mission integrator NanoAvionics to develop key components for small satellite propulsion systems. The new propulsion technologies, with a thrust of up to 5N, aim to further reduce the cost of small satellite projects while making each satellite more reliable, propellant supply chains safer, and constellations more economical. Based on those components a new generation of propulsion systems for small satellites will be used in f ... read more |
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How NASA's Mars Helicopter Will Reach the Red Planet's SurfacePasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2020 NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will travel with the Perseverance rover through 314 million miles (505 million kilometers) of interplanetary space to get to Mars. But for the team working on the fi ... more  
Evidence supports 'hot start' scenario and early ocean formation on PlutoSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 The accretion of new material during Pluto's formation may have generated enough heat to create a liquid ocean that has persisted beneath an icy crust to the present day, despite the dwarf planet's ... more  
Breakthrough listen releases list of "exotica"San Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 Breakthrough Listen, the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the Universe, has released an innovative catalog of "Exotica" - a diverse list of objects of potential interest to astronomer ... more 
NASA scientist simulates sunsets on other worldsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 Have you ever wondered what a sunset on Uranus might look like? As you can see in the animation above, a Uranian sunset is a rich azure that fades into royal blue with hints of turquoise. This blue- ... more |
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Scientists provide new explanation for the far side of the Moon's strange asymmetryTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 The Earth-Moon system's history remains mysterious. Scientists believe the two formed when a Mars-sized body collided with the proto-Earth. Earth ended up being the larger daughter of this collision ... more 
Are Planets with Oceans Common in the Galaxy? It's Likely, NASA Scientists FindGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 Several years ago, planetary scientist Lynnae Quick began to wonder whether any of the more than 4,000 known exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system, might resemble some of the watery moons a ... more 
New study to search universe for signs of technological civilizationsBoston MA (SPX) Jun 22, 2020 Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian and the University of Rochester are collaborating on a project to search the universe for signs of life via technosignatures, afte ... more 
Reducing the risk of space debris collisionby Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 As humanity expands its horizons beyond the Earth and begins to consider space missions with extended duration, sustainability necessitates the launch of more space ... more  
Final Beidou launch marks major milestone in China's space effortBeijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 The final satellite to complete the third-generation network of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System was launched on Tuesday morning, marking a milestone in the nation's space endeavor. ... more |
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 Researchers discover unique material design for brain-like computations 
Satellite launch center Wenchang eyes boosting homestay, catering sectorsWenchang, China (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 Homestay and catering industries related to aerospace are expected to be developed in Wenchang township, the location of China's fourth satellite launch center in tropical Hainan province, according ... more  |
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Final Frontier Design awarded multiple NASA lunar xEMU Space Suit contractsNew York NY (SPX) Jun 22, 2020 Final Frontier Design (FFD) is pleased to announce the award of multiple contracts for components of NASA's next generation xEMU Lunar space suit. The xEMU Lunar space suit will be used in the ... more 
NASA's new Mars mission will take at least a decade to confirm lifeWashington DC (UPI) Jun 17, 2020 NASA's new microbe-hunting Mars rover, scheduled for launch July 20, is the most sophisticated rover yet, but it will take at least a decade to determine whether samples the machine collects exhibit signs of life, agency officials said Wednesday. ... more  
Evidence for Volcanic Craters on Saturn's Moon TitanTucson AZ (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 Volcano-like features seen in polar regions of Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft could be evidence of explosive eruptions that may continue today, according to a new paper by Planetar ... more  
Space Mission Launches that will Carry Experiment Aimed at Solving Antibiotic ResistanceRamat Gan, Israel (SPX) Jun 18, 2020 Israel's Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer will make history on June 18 as one of the world's first hospitals to launch a bio-medical experiment in space. To help solve the worsening global problem ... more  
A proven method for stabilizing efforts to bring fusion power to EarthPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Jun 18, 2020 All efforts to replicate in tokamak fusion facilities the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars must cope with a constant problem - transient heat bursts that can halt fusion reactions and dam ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2020 
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will travel with the Perseverance rover through 314 million miles (505 million kilometers) of interplanetary space to get to Mars. But for the team working on the first experimental flight test on another planet, engineering the final 5 inches (13 centimeters) of the journey has been among the most challenging of all. To safely navigate those 5 inches - the dista ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 
The Earth-Moon system's history remains mysterious. Scientists believe the two formed when a Mars-sized body collided with the proto-Earth. Earth ended up being the larger daughter of this collision and retained enough heat to become tectonically active. The Moon, being smaller, likely cooled down faster and geologically 'froze'. The apparent early dynamism of the Moon challenges this idea.
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 
The accretion of new material during Pluto's formation may have generated enough heat to create a liquid ocean that has persisted beneath an icy crust to the present day, despite the dwarf planet's orbit far from the sun in the cold outer reaches of the solar system.
This "hot start" scenario, presented in a paper published June 22 in Nature Geoscience, contrasts with the traditional view ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2020 
For most of human history our understanding of how planets form and evolve was based on the eight (or nine) planets in our solar system. But over the last 25 years, the discovery of more than 4,000 exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, changed all that.
Among the most intriguing of these distant worlds is a class of exoplanets called hot Jupiters. Similar in size to Jupiter, the ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) June 23, 2020 
China on Tuesday launched the final satellite in its homegrown geolocation system, completing a network designed to rival American GPS as it jostles for market share in the lucrative sector.
Footage broadcast live on television showed a rocket blasting off with the satellite from a mountainous region of southwest China, which state media hailed as another milestone in the country's space pro ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 
The final satellite to complete the third-generation network of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System was launched on Tuesday morning, marking a milestone in the nation's space endeavor.
As the countdown ticked down to zero at 9:43 am at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, eight engines on the first stage and four boosters of a Long March 3B carrier rocket spat or ... more |
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 Montevideo, Uruguay (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 
The International Astronomical Union has just approved an official name for a tiny asteroid satellite set to become the first-ever target of an asteroid deflection mission. The satellite is the smaller of two bodies in the near-Earth asteroid system Didymos, and will now be distinguished from its primary object by the name Dimorphos.
In July 2021, just over a year from now, NASA will launc ... more |
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 Pearl Harbor (USN) May 22, 2020 
Amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) successfully disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a Solid State Laser - Technology Maturation Laser Weapon System Demonstrator (LWSD) MK 2 MOD 0 on May 16.
LWSD is a high-energy laser weapon system demonstrator developed by the Office of Naval Research and installed on Portland for an at-sea demonstration. LWSD's operational em ... more |
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 
The world's most advanced missile defense satellite recently and successfully came out of almost two months of harsh simulated space environmental testing.
On June 9, the U.S. Space Force's fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite (SBIRS GEO-5) successfully completed Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) testing at Lockheed Martin's Sunnyvale, California satellite manufacturi ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 
Volcano-like features seen in polar regions of Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft could be evidence of explosive eruptions that may continue today, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Charles A. Wood and coauthor Jani Radebaugh of Brigham Young University.
Morphological features such as nested collapses, elevated ramparts, halos, and islan ... more |
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 Dubendorf, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
The smallest motor in the world - consisting of just 16 atoms: this was developed by a team of researchers from Empa and EPFL. "This brings us close to the ultimate size limit for molecular motors," explains Oliver Groning, head of the Functional Surfaces Research Group at Empa. The motor measures less than one nanometer - in other words it is around 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a ... more |
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 
A highly unusual gravitational wave signal, detected by the LIGO and Virgo observatories in the US and Italy, was generated by a new class of binary systems (two astronomical objects orbiting around each other), an international team of astrophysicists has confirmed.
Scientists from the LIGO and Virgo Collaboration, which includes researchers from the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astro ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Jun 21, 2020 
"Beam me up" is one of the most famous catchphrases from the Star Trek series. It is the command issued when a character wishes to teleport from a remote location back to the Starship Enterprise.
While human teleportation exists only in science fiction, teleportation is possible in the subatomic world of quantum mechanics--albeit not in the way typically depicted on TV. In the quantum worl ... more |
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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 
Over the past few decades, computers have seen dramatic progress in processing power; however, even the most advanced computers are relatively rudimentary in comparison with the complexities and capabilities of the human brain.
Researchers at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory say this may be changing as they endeavor to design computers inspir ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 
Since the dawn of flight, pilots have used acrobatic maneuvers to test the limits of their airplanes. The same goes for flying drones: Professional pilots often gage the limits of their drones and measure their level of mastery by flying such maneuvers in competitions
Working together with microprocessor company Intel, a team of researchers at the University of Zurich has now developed a q ... more |
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