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  Rochester UK (SPX) Jul 15, 2020 Recent NASA missions to asteroids have gathered important data about the early evolution of our Solar System, planet formation, and how life may have originated on Earth. These missions also provide crucial information to deflect asteroids that could hit Earth. Missions like the OSIRIS-REx mission to Asteroid Bennu and the Hyabusa II mission to Ryugu, are often conducted by robotic explorers that send images back to Earth showing complex asteroid surfaces with cracked, perched boulders and rubble ... read more |
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UAE again delays Mars probe launch over weatherDubai (AFP) July 15, 2020 The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday it would delay the launch of its "Hope" Mars probe for a second time, again due to bad weather. ... more  
Supercomputer reveals atmospheric impact of gigantic planetary collisionsDurham UK (SPX) Jul 15, 2020 The giant impacts that dominate late stages of planet formation have a wide range of consequences for young planets and their atmospheres, according to new research. Research led by Durham Uni ... more 
Artificial intelligence predicts which planetary systems will survivePrinceton UK (SPX) Jul 15, 2020 Why don't planets collide more often? How do planetary systems - like our solar system or multi-planet systems around other stars - organize themselves? Of all of the possible ways planets could orb ... more 
'Disk Detective' Needs Your Help Finding Disks Where Planets FormParis (ESA) Jul 15, 2020 Planets form from gas and dust particles swirling around baby stars in enormous spinning disks. But because this process takes millions of years, scientists can only learn about these disks by findi ... more |
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Building NASA's Psyche: Design Done, Now Full Speed Ahead on HardwarePasadena CA (JPL) Jul 09, 2020 Psyche, the NASA mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid of the same name, recently passed a crucial milestone that brings it closer to its August 2022 launch date. Now the mission is moving from p ... more 
The quest to find signs of ancient life on MarsParis (AFP) July 11, 2020 Mars may now be considered a barren, icy desert but did Earth's nearest neighbour once harbour life? ... more 
NASA Awards SETI Institute Contract for Planetary Protection SupportWashington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 NASA has awarded the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, a contract to support all phases of current and future planetary protection missions to ensure compliance with planetary protection ... more  
A slightly younger MoonBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 The Moon formed a little later than previously assumed. When a Mars-sized protoplanet was destroyed in a collision with the young Earth, a new body was created from the debris ejected during this ca ... more 
NASA updates planetary protection policies for lunar and mars human missionsWashington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 NASA has released two NASA Interim Directives (NIDs) updating the agency's requirements for robotic and human missions traveling to the Earth's Moon, and human missions traveling to Mars. The first, ... more |
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 NASA's Perseverance Rover Attached to Atlas V Rocket 
Scientists identify 'gel-like' substance Chinese rover found on the moonWashington DC (UPI) Jul 09, 2020 Scientists have identified the 'gel-like' substance the Yutu-2 rover mission discovered on the far side of the moon a year ago, according to a study published this week in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. ... more  |
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Johnson-Built Device to Help Mars Perseverance Rover Search for Signs of LifeHouston 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 ... more 
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  
China's newest carrier rocket fails in debut missionJiuquan, China (XNA) Jul 13, 2020 The debut mission of Kuaizhou 11, the newest in China's carrier rocket fleet, failed on Friday, according to its maker. The rocket blasted off at 12:17 pm at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Cente ... 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 |
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 Dubai (AFP) July 15, 2020  The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday it would delay the launch of its "Hope" Mars probe for a second time, again due to bad weather.
The probe was originally due to be launched from Japan on Wednesday but had been postponed until Friday for the same reason.
"After extensive meetings, the @UAESpaceAgency and @MBRSpaceCentre, through discussions with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, anno ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 
The Moon formed a little later than previously assumed. When a Mars-sized protoplanet was destroyed in a collision with the young Earth, a new body was created from the debris ejected during this catastrophe - the Moon. Planetary geophysicists at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), led by Maxime Maurice, together with researchers at the University of Mun ... 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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 Princeton UK (SPX) Jul 15, 2020 
Why don't planets collide more often? How do planetary systems - like our solar system or multi-planet systems around other stars - organize themselves? Of all of the possible ways planets could orbit, how many configurations will remain stable over the billions of years of a star's life cycle?
Rejecting the large range of unstable possibilities - all the configurations that would lead to ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 13, 2020 
The launch of the Russian Soyuz carrier rocket with the Falcon Eye-2 satellite from the Kourou Space Centre is planned for October, the German Aerospace Centre has confirmed.
The launch was initially scheduled for 6 March but was postponed due to a malfunction on the Fregat-M upper stage. Later, the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana was temporarily closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Jul 13, 2020 
The debut mission of Kuaizhou 11, the newest in China's carrier rocket fleet, failed on Friday, according to its maker.
The rocket blasted off at 12:17 pm at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert to send two small satellites to two different orbits. During its flight, some abnormalities emerged and resulted in failure, China Aerospace Science and Industry ... 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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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 
Scientists at Harvard University and the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) have developed a new method to find black holes in the outer solar system, and along with it, determine once-and-for-all the true nature of the hypothesized Planet Nine. The paper, accepted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, highlights the ability of the future Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) mission to observe accret ... more |
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 Washington (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.
While the protests have focused on police misconduct, activists point out flaws that may lead to unfair applications of technologies for law enforcement, including facial recognition, predictive policing and "risk a ... more |
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 Huntsville FL (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 
Northrop Grumman Corporation's Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control (FAAD C2) system has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) as the interim command and control system for future Counter-Small Unmanned Aerial System (C-sUAS) procurements.
The decision follows the findings of a service board established by the DOD's Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-sUA ... more |
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