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  Cape Canaveral (AFP) July 31, 2020 NASA's latest Mars rover Perseverance launched Thursday on an astrobiology mission to look for signs of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet - and to fly a helicopter-drone on another world for the first time. Previous trips to Mars have discovered it was far warmer and wetter three billion years ago than it is today, creating the conditions necessary for carbon-based life. Perseverance's goal is to go a step further, and discover whether "habitable" translated to "habited." "There woul ... read more |
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Mars orbiter spots return of long, thin cloud on Red PlanetWashington DC (UPI) Jul 30, 2020 With the help of the Mars Express orbiter and its Visual Monitoring Camera, astronomers at the European Space Agency have spotted the return of a mysterious cloud on the Red Planet. ... more  
Quest advances to recreate sun's energy on earthSaint-Paul-Les-Durance, France (AFP) July 28, 2020 Fourteen years after receiving the official go-ahead, scientists on Tuesday began assembling a giant machine in southern France designed to demonstrate that nuclear fusion, the process which powers the sun, can be a safe and viable energy source on Earth. ... more 
Mars-bound: NASA's life-seeking rover Perseverance launchesCape Canaveral (AFP) July 30, 2020 NASA's latest Mars rover Perseverance launched Thursday on an astrobiology mission to look for signs of ancient microbial life - and to fly a helicopter-drone on another world for the first time. ... more 
Humanity on Mars? Technically possible, but no voyage on horizonWashington (AFP) July 30, 2020 Robotic landers and rovers have been touching down on Mars since the 1970s, but when will humanity finally set foot on the Red Planet? ... more |
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DLR's High Resolution Stereo Camera 'flies' over a future Mars landing siteParis (ESA) Jul 30, 2020 Jezero is not just any impact crater on Mars. An ancient river delta near the western rim of the crater is evidence that it contained a lake more than 3.5 billion years ago. Numerous aqueous mineral ... more 
Lockheed Martin technology protects NASA's Mars 2020 missionDenver CO (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 Lockheed Martin developed the technology behind the aeroshell that will protect NASA's newest Mars rover, Perseverance, and deploy the first-ever Mars helicopter. The Mars 2020 spacecraft with its P ... more  
As if space wasn't dangerous enoughAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country's Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars's sur ... more  
Subterranean Challenge pivots to all-virtual competition for cave circuitWashington DC (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge focuses on discovering innovative approaches to map, navigate, and search complex underground environments across three diverse subdomains: human-made tunnels, ... more  
Battelle Energy Alliance seeks industry partners to design nuclear power system for MoonWashington DC (Sputnik) Jul 27, 2020 The prospective reactor must be able to generate an uninterrupted electricity output of at least 10 kilowatts. The US Department of Energy has recently put out a request to the private sector ... more |
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Texas firm develops adaptable satellites with fast software upgradesWashington DC (UPI) Jul 27, 2020 The U.S. Air Force and a private technology company in Texas started to develop new satellites this summer that are capable of quick software changes in orbit to respond to threats and to carry out new tasks. ... more  |
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Scientists revive microbes from 100 million years agoParis (AFP) July 28, 2020 Scientists have successfully revived microbes that had lain dormant at the bottom of the sea since the age of the dinosaurs, allowing the organisms to eat and even multiply after eons in the deep. ... more 
Russia to create several space robotsMoscow (Sputnik) Jul 28, 2020 Russia will manufacture several space robots designed for operating on the surface of the International Space Station, but only one will be sent to space, Evgeny Dudorov, the CEO of Moscow-based And ... more 
NASA's Perseverance Rover will carry first spacesuit materials to MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 29, 2020 NASA is preparing to send the first woman and next man to the Moon, part of a larger strategy to send the first astronauts to the surface of Mars. But before they get there, they'll be faced with a ... more 
UK scientists help NASA answer the question, 'was there life on Mars?'London, UK (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 Backed by the UK Space Agency, researchers at Imperial College London and the Natural History Museum will help the NASA Perseverance rover select Martian rock and soil samples to be brought back fro ... more  
Leveraging microgravity to improve medical diagnosticsKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 What if a single drop of blood were all that is needed to provide reliable medical diagnostics in any setting on-or even off-Earth? This week, NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken, who ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
So, you want to try flying a helicopter on Mars. You work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and have proven time and again that when it comes to landing and operating robotic probes and rovers on the distant Red Planet you pretty much know what you're doing.
But it's never a sure thing when it comes to planetary exploration.
Even as smart as you are about design ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 27, 2020 
Russian space industry giant Energia is involved in the production of everything from rockets and satellites to space stations and ballistic missiles, and is the prime mover behind the current Russian manned spaceflight programs.
Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia has created and patented a means to fly cosmonauts to the Moon and back without an expensive new heavy-launch rocket. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 23, 2020 
On its way inbound for a Dec. 26, 2019, flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew in the proximity of the north pole of the ninth-largest object in the solar system, the moon Ganymede. The infrared imagery collected by the spacecraft's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument provides the first infrared mapping of the massive moon's northern frontier.
The only moon in the sola ... more |
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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country's Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars's surface by early next year.
Similarly, the launch of the Emirates Mars Mission on Sunday marked the Arab world's foray into interplanetary space travel. And on July 30, we expect to see NASA's Mars ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 29, 2020 
South Korea has been permitted to develop solid-fuel space rockets after missile guidelines were revised with the United States.
Kim Hyun-chong, South Korea's deputy national security adviser to President Moon Jae-in, said at a press briefing Seoul is to adopt amendments to current missile standards starting Tuesday, Yonhap and local newspaper Maeil Business reported.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 
With the carrier rocket Long March-5 lifting off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Thursday, China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has embarked on its maiden voyage to brave the challenge of orbiting, landing and deploying a rover on the red planet in one single mission.
"Tianwen," the name of China's Martian exploration project, comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Heavenly Questi ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), a scientific team has for the first time simulated the formation of a class of stony-iron meteorites, so-called pallasites, on a purely experimental basis.
"Pallasites are the optical ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 
Northrop Grumman has formed a strategic supplier agreement with Epirus, Inc. to offer the company's Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) capability as a component of Northrop Grumman's Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) systems-of-systems solution offering.
The agreement augments Northrop Grumman's advanced end-to-end C-UAS capabilities by including Epirus' EMP systems to defeat UAS swarms, and ... 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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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell.
The team, led by scientists at JILA, reported its new feat of wafer-thinness this week in the journal Physical Review Materials. The group's target, a film just 5 nanometers thick, is the thinnest material ... 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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 University Park PA (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
While Einstein's theory of general relativity can explain a large array of fascinating astrophysical and cosmological phenomena, some aspects of the properties of the universe at the largest-scales remain a mystery. A new study using loop quantum cosmology - a theory that uses quantum mechanics to extend gravitational physics beyond Einstein's theory of general relativity - accounts for two majo ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge focuses on discovering innovative approaches to map, navigate, and search complex underground environments across three diverse subdomains: human-made tunnels, urban underground, and natural cave systems. Two previous scored events - Tunnel and Urban Circuits - featured both Virtual and Systems Competitions.
DARPA has made the difficult decision to pro ... more |
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 JEB Little Creek VA (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 
Naval Facilities (NAVFAC) Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (EXWC), U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), and the U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) successfully completed a proof-of-concept vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) demonstration on July 13, 2020.
With NAVFAC EXWC at the helm as the demonstration lead, the join ... more |
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