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  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 The group of associate professor Hitoshi Tamura and others of the National Institute of Natural Sciences (NINS) National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) first applied topology optimization technique to the concept design of a helical fusion reactor which aims to demonstrate power generation. The group successfully achieved a weight reduction of about 2,000 tons of the support structure surrounding helically twisted coils while maintaining the strength of the structure. A superconducting coil i ... read more |
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Simulation of high-pressure plasma for an economical helical fusion reactorTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 The research team of Assistant Professor Masahiko Sato and Professor Yasushi Todo of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) has succeeded usi ... more 
Mathematical noodling leads to new insights into an old fusion problemPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 A challenge to creating fusion energy on Earth is trapping the charged gas known as plasma that fuels fusion reactions within a strong magnetic field and keeping the plasma as hot and dense as possi ... more  
Flight over Korolev Crater on MarsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 This video shows a simulated flight over Korolev Crater. The 82-kilometre-wide impact crater is filled with water ice all year round. It is located in the northern lowlands of Mars, near the permane ... more  
Unprecedented ground-based discovery of 2 strongly interacting exoplanetsParis, France (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new breakthrough has been achieved with, for the first time, the detection directly from the ground of an extrasolar sys ... more |
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One galaxy, two asteroidsParis (ESA) Jul 02, 2020 At first sight, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope portrays the sparkling stars of AGC111977, a dwarf galaxy located around 15 million light years away and visible in the lower left ... more  
Radar points to Moon being more metallic than researchers thoughtLaurel MD (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 What started out as a hunt for ice lurking in polar lunar craters turned into an unexpected finding that could help clear some muddy history about the Moon's formation. Team members of the Min ... more 
Metals in lunar craters provide new insights to its originLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 Life on Earth would not be possible without the Moon; it keeps our planet's axis of rotation stable, which controls seasons and regulates our climate. However, there has been considerable debate ove ... more 
China eyes July 20-25 launch for Mars roverBeijing (AFP) July 1, 2020 China's first Mars rover should launch later this month, authorities said Wednesday, as the country races to catch up with the US dominance of space. ... more 
Suitcase-sized asteroid explorerParis (ESA) Jul 02, 2020 A view of ESA's smallest future asteroid mission mapping its target body by laser. The suitcase-sized ESA's 'Miniaturised Asteroid Remote Geophysical Observer', or M-Argo will use a multispect ... more |
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NASA's TESS delivers new insights into an ultrahot worldGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 01, 2020 Measurements from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of the hottest plane ... more  |
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TESS mission discovers massive ice giantBoston MA (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 The "ice giant" planets Neptune and Uranus are much less dense than rocky, terrestrial planets such as Venus and Earth. Beyond our solar system, many other Neptune-sized planets, orbiting distant st ... more  
DLR and Mozilla are researching technologies for voice control of robotsMunich, Germany (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 There is no room for error when controlling satellites or operating the Columbus Laboratory on the International Space Station. Every single working step and command follows an established procedure ... more 
New jellyfish robots can outswim their inspirationWashington DC (UPI) Jul 02, 2020 Engineers have developed soft-bodied robots that can outswim their biological inspiration - jellyfish. ... more 
Coordinating complex behaviors between hundreds of robotsDurham NC (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 In one of the more memorable scenes from the 2002 blockbuster film Minority Report, Tom Cruise is forced to hide from a swarm of spider-like robots scouring a towering apartment complex. While most ... more 
China's lunar rover travels about 463 meters on moon's far sideBeijing (XNA) Jun 30, 2020 China's lunar rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, has moved 463.26 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration of the virgin territory. Both the lander and the rover of th ... more |
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 Fukuoka, Japan (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
Compared with our own planet Earth, Mars might seem like a "dead" planet, but even there, the wind blows and the ground moves. On Earth, we study the ambient seismic noise rippling mainly due to ocean activity to peek underground at the structure of the Earth's interior. Can we do the same on Mars without ocean?
According to a new study by researchers at Kyushu University's International I ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
What started out as a hunt for ice lurking in polar lunar craters turned into an unexpected finding that could help clear some muddy history about the Moon's formation.
Team members of the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft found new evidence that the Moon's subsurface might be richer in metals, like iron and titanium, tha ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 
A new model from NASA scientists supports the theory that the interior ocean in Jupiter's moon Europa would be able to sustain life. In addition they have calculated that this water, believed to be an ocean under the surface ice shell, could have been formed by breakdown of water-containing minerals due to either tidal forces or radioactive decay. This work, which is not yet peer-reviewed, is pr ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 01, 2020 
Measurements from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of the hottest planets known.
"The weirdness factor is high with KELT-9 b," said John Ahlers, an astronomer at Universities Space Research Association in Columbia, Maryland, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center i ... more |
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 Long Beach CA (SPX) Jul 04, 2020 
Following a successful lift-off, first stage burn, and stage separation, Rocket Lab experienced an anomaly during its 13th Electron mission 'Pics Or It Didn't Happen.'
The issue occurred approximately four minutes into the flight on July 4, 2020 and resulted in the safe loss of the vehicle. As a result, the payloads onboard Electron were not deployed to orbit.
Electron remained withi ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2020 
Yuanwang-6 - China's space-tracking ship, Yuanwang-6, has completed maritime monitoring for the last satellite launch of the country's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday.
The satellite, the 55th of the BeiDou family, was launched at 9:43 am (Beijing Time) on Tuesday. It was sent into the preset orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang S ... more |
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ESA's Gaia space observatory is an ambitious mission to construct a three-dimensional map of our galaxy by making high-precision measurements of over one billion stars. However, on its journey to map distant suns, Gaia is revolutionising a field much closer to home. By accurately mapping the stars, it is helping researchers track down lost asteroids.
Gaia charts the galaxy by repeatedly sc ... 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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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
Japan's announcement on the suspension of the deployment of Aegis Ashore missile defense systems marks a potential shift in the country's security strategy. The turning point depends on the substitute for Aegis Ashore. The country is now considering pre-emptive strike capabilities as a possibility, targeting missile launchers in North Korea first instead of intercepting incoming missiles. Interc ... 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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 Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
QinetiQ's space business has secured a new contract worth 8.5m euro with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development and production of microgravity-based heat transfer experiments, expected to be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2026.
Called the Heat Transfer Host 1, or simply HOST1, the contract includes the development of the experimentation platform and four ... more |
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 Nashville TN (SPX) Jul 01, 2020 
The revolution in our understanding of the night sky and our place in the universe began when we transitioned from using the naked eye to a telescope in 1609. Four centuries later, scientists are experiencing a similar transition in their knowledge of black holes by searching for gravitational waves.
In the search for previously undetected black holes that are billions of times more massiv ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 
There is no room for error when controlling satellites or operating the Columbus Laboratory on the International Space Station. Every single working step and command follows an established procedure and is documented. The German Space Operations Center (GSOC) at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is developing the voice transmission software openvocs in ... more |
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 White Salmon WA (SPX) Jul 01, 2020 
Sagetech Avionics, the world's leading developer and manufacturer of miniature aviation transponders, announced a partnership with Embention, a leading supplier of critical components for unmanned vehicles. Adding Sagetech's transponders to its other aviation solutions, enables Embention to offer its customers full certified situational awareness during the piloting of UAVs.
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