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  Paris (ESA) Aug 03, 2020 European scientists will help select rocks and soil from Mars in the search for life on our planetary neighbour. Five European researchers are part of NASA's Mars 2020 science team to select the most promising martian samples bound for Earth. The mission to Mars launched last week for its seven-month journey to the Red Planet. Once there, the team will guide the Perseverance rover as it hunts for evidence of ancient microbial life. The group is made up of researchers from Belgium, France, Sweden a ... read more |
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Radiation-Devouring Mold Could Be Humanity's Key to Venturing to Mars, New Research SaysWashington DC (Sputnik) Aug 03, 2020 While engineers, astronomers and even sociologists are working diligently to address the issues preventing humanity from reaching distant planets, one problem has long remained unattended - how to d ... more  
NASA's Webb Telescope Will Study Jupiter, Its Rings, and Two Intriguing MoonsBaltimore MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo Galilei that Earth is not the cente ... more  
Surprising number of exoplanets could host lifeRiverside CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Our solar system has one habitable planet - Earth. A new study shows other stars could have as many as seven Earth-like planets in the absence of a gas giant like Jupiter. This is the conclusion of ... more 
NASA's Perseverance rover bound for Mars to seek ancient lifeCape 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. ... more |
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Rover mission follows centuries of fascination with MarsWashington DC (UPI) Jul 29, 2020 During the last two decades, Mars has captured the imagination of the public and attention of NASA decision makers, just as the moon excited the nation and served as the north star for the agency during the '60s and '70s. ... more 
NASA's aeronautics experts help prepare Ingenuity to fly on MarsKennedy 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 p ... more 
NASA overcame pandemic obstacles for Mars rover launch ThursdayWashington DC (UPI) Jul 29, 2020 NASA overcame workplace difficulties caused by the coronavirus pandemic to achieve Thursday's Mars rover launch attempt, NASA deputy administrator Jim Morhard said Wednesday. ... more 
Mars-bound: NASA's life-seeking rover Perseverance set for launchCape Canaveral (AFP) July 30, 2020 NASA's latest Mars rover Perseverance launches 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 
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 |
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 Lockheed Martin technology protects NASA's Mars 2020 mission
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  |
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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 
Spaceflight Inc chooses Tethers Unlimited's Terminator Tape to deorbit of Orbit Transfer VehicleBothell WA (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) is pleased to announce that Spaceflight Inc. has selected TUI's NanoSat Terminator Tape Deorbit System for end-of life disposal of its new Sherpa-FX orbit transfer vehi ... more 
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 
Deep sea microbes dormant for 100 million years are hungry and ready to multiplyKingston RI (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 For decades, scientists have gathered ancient sediment samples from below the seafloor to better understand past climates, plate tectonics and the deep marine ecosystem. In a new study published in ... 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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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo Galilei that Earth is not the center of the universe in the early 17th century. More than 400 years later, astronomers will use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to observe these famous subjects, pushing the observatory's instruments t ... 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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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
The second to last piece of hardware for the Artemis I test flight around the Moon has arrived at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) connects the core stage of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the upper stage, called the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage.
The cone-shaped connector also helps protect the RL10 engine housed in the ... more |
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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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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
Scientists have found that a physical property called 'quantum negativity' can be used to take more precise measurements of everything from molecular distances to gravitational waves.
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, Harvard and MIT, have shown that quantum particles can carry an unlimited amount of information about things they have interacted with. The results, reported ... 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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 Vineyard UT (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
Armasuisse contracted Lockheed Martin (LMT) for a fleet of Indago 3 small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), with options for spares, training and tech support and additional systems for the Swiss Army.
Indago provides aerial reconnaissance in environments unreachable by normal fixed-wing, unmanned aircraft systems.
The first phase comprises manufacturing development to optimize the In ... more |
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