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  Houston TX (SPX) Jul 09, 2020 Later this summer, NASA is launching the Mars Perseverance Rover to the Red Planet with the Mars 2020 Mission. The rover is loaded with equipment to search for signs that there once was life on Mars. One device, called the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) instrument, will be used to detect chemicals on the Martian surface that are linked to the existence of life. To keep the instrument working well, a team from the Astromaterials Research a ... read more |
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NASA's InSight Flexes Its Arm While Its 'Mole' Hits PausePasadena CA (JPL) Jul 09, 2020 NASA's InSight lander has been using its robotic arm to help the heat probe known as the "mole" burrow into Mars. The mission is providing the first look at the Red Planet's deep interior to reveal ... more  
NASA Increases Investment in US Small Businesses to Mature Lunar Capabilities for ArtemisWashington DC (SPX) Jul 09, 2020 NASA has selected four U.S. small businesses to mature a range of technologies for sustainable exploration of the Moon under the Artemis program. Through Artemis, the first woman and next man will l ... more 
Eyes on the stars: UAE's Mars probe a first for the Arab worldDubai (AFP) July 10, 2020 The oil-rich United Arab Emirates has built a nuclear power programme and sent a man to space, and now plans to join another elite club by sending a probe to Mars. ... more 
Six decades of missions to MarsParis (AFP) July 10, 2020 The six-decade space race to explore Mars has led to some 40 missions, at least half of which have been successful, and still the Red Planet inspires new adventures. ... more |
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Summer road trip for Curiosity rover has begunPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 07, 2020 NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has started a road trip that will continue through the summer across roughly a mile (1.6 kilometers) of terrain. By trip's end, the rover will be able to ascend to the ne ... more 
Nature of Enigmatic Substance Found on Far Side of the Moon Uncovered by ScientistsBeijing (Sputnik) Jul 09, 2020 Despite the substance in question being described as "gel-like" shortly after its discovery, new research suggests that it is likely a rock after all. Chinese scientists have revealed the anal ... 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  
The cosmic commute toward star and planet formationHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2020 The molecular gas in galaxies is set into motion by physical mechanisms such as galactic rotation, supernova explosions, magnetic fields, turbulence, and gravity, shaping the structure of the gas. U ... more 
Dying stars breathe life into EarthBaltimore MD (SPX) Jul 07, 2020 As dying stars take their final few breaths of life, they gently sprinkle their ashes into the cosmos through the magnificent planetary nebulae. These ashes, spread via stellar winds, are enriched w ... more |
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Launch campaign for 2nd Mission Extension Vehicle begins at KourouKourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 Northrop Grumman has reported the arrival of the company-built Galaxy 30 (G-30) spacecraft for Intelsat and the Mission Extension Vehicle 2 (MEV-2) at the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. The v ... more  |
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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 
Amid reckoning on police racism, algorithm bias in focusWashington (AFP) July 5, 2020 A wave of protests over law enforcement abuses has highlighted concerns over artificial intelligence programs like facial recognition which critics say may reinforce racial bias. ... more  
Lose weight of fusion reactor componentTokyo, 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 techn ... more 
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 |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 07, 2020 
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has started a road trip that will continue through the summer across roughly a mile (1.6 kilometers) of terrain. By trip's end, the rover will be able to ascend to the next section of the 3-mile-tall Martian (5-kilometer-tall) mountain it's been exploring since 2014, searching for conditions that may have supported ancient microbial life.
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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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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 09, 2020 
The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place - filled with dark and icy bodies with nicknames like Sedna, Biden and The Goblin, each of which span several hundred miles across.
Two new studies by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder may help to solve one of the biggest mysteries about these far away worlds: why so many of them don't circle the sun the way they ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 09, 2020 
The molecular gas in galaxies is organised into a hierarchy of structures. The molecular material in giant molecular gas clouds travels along intricate networks of filamentary gas lanes towards the congested centres of gas and dust where it is compressed into stars and planets, much like the millions of people commuting to cities for work around the world.
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
Advanced Rockets Corporation (ARC) report it has been granted a Space Vehicle Systems patent featuring a unique architecture for multiple applications, including space launch, national defense, and high-speed civil aviation.
The patent also addresses critical factors for reducing the cost of access to space, including, high-utilization, Continuous Intact Abort Capability (CIAC), and reusab ... 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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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 09, 2020 
A comet visiting from the most distant parts of our solar system is putting on a spectacular nighttime display. Named Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, the comet made its once-in-our-lifetimes close approach to the Sun on July 3, 2020, and will cross outside Earth's orbit on its way back to the outer parts of the solar system by mid-August.
The comet cruised just inside Mercury's orbit on July 3. T ... 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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 Durham 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 viewers are likely transfixed by the small, agile bloodhound replacements, a computer engineer might marvel instead at their elegant control system.
In a building several stories tall with numer ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 08, 2020  The anti-drone defense system of Northrop Grumman Corp. was selected by the Defense Department for short-term use, the company announced on Wednesday.
The Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control, or FAAD C2, system, is the platform of choice until a permanent solution is developed, Grumman said in a press release.
The system "collects, processes, and disseminates real-time t ... more |
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