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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 29, 2020 NASA's first mission to explore the Trojan asteroids is one step closer to launch. The Discovery Program's Lucy mission passed a critical milestone and is officially authorized to transition to its next phase. This major decision was made after a series of independent reviews of the status of the spacecraft, instruments, schedule and budget. The milestone, known as Key Decision Point-D (KDP-D), represents the official transition from the mission's development stage to delivery of components, testi ... read more |
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Sensing the Moon with the Ion Trap Mass SpectrometerParis (ESA) Aug 29, 2020 A new sensor to identify lunar volatiles is being assembled in a clean room at The Open University, UK ahead of some exciting missions to the Moon. The Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (ITMS) imaged ... more
Wheelock readies astronauts for Lunar landingEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Aug 29, 2020 Astronaut Doug "Wheels" Wheelock spent his NASA career expanding knowledge of living and working in space. His new mission is working to determine the best way to train astronauts to return to the s ... more  
China releases recommended Chinese names for Mars cratersBeijing (XNA) Aug 29, 2020 The Chinese Astronomical Society (CAS) has recently released the list of recommended Chinese names of 1,136 Mars craters on its website. The data will be available for public use. Users can fi ... more  
NASA selects proposals for new space environment missionsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 29, 2020 NASA has selected five proposals for concept studies of missions to help improve understanding of the dynamics of the Sun and the constantly changing space environment with which it interacts around ... more |
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Bacteria could survive travel between Earth and Mars when forming aggregatesWashington DC (SPX) Aug 26, 2020 Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as bacteria, transported through space, and landing on another planet. The bacteria finding suitable conditions for its survival could then start multiplying aga ... more 
Fifty new planets confirmed in machine learning firstCoventry UK (SPX) Aug 26, 2020 Fifty potential planets have had their existence confirmed by a new machine learning algorithm developed by University of Warwick scientists. For the first time, astronomers have used a proc ... more 
Tracing the cosmic origin of complex organic molecules with their radiofrequency footprintTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 26, 2020 The origin of life on Earth is a topic that has piqued human curiosity since probably before recorded history began. But how did the organic matter that constitutes lifeforms even arrive at our plan ... more  
China's Mars probe over 8m km away from EarthBeijing (XNA) Aug 24, 2020 China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled more than 8 million km away from Earth and is functioning normally, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space ... more  
Large shift on Europa was last event to fracture its surfaceHouston TX (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 Europa's outer icy shell has completely reoriented itself in one of the last geologic events recorded on its young surface. Europa's poles are not where they used to be. Cracks in the surface of Jup ... more |
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Rogue planets could outnumber the starsColumbus OH (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets - planets that float in space without orbiting a sun - than there are stars in the Milky Way, a new study theorizes. "This ... more  |
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Follow Perseverance in real time on its way to MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 24, 2020 The last time we saw NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission was on July 30, 2020, as it disappeared into the black of deep space on a trajectory for Mars. But with NASA's Eyes on the Solar Syst ... more  
AlphaDogfight trials foreshadow future of human-machine symbiosisWashington DC (SPX) Aug 27, 2020 A small Maryland company took first place in last week's AlphaDogfight Trials Final event, a three-day competition designed to demonstrate advanced algorithms capable of performing simulated, within ... more 
Spacepath Communications wins large order for solid-state RF power amplifiersHook UK (SPX) Aug 26, 2020 SpacePath Communications, a dedicated European-based, SATCOM amplifier manufacturer and equipment supplier, has won a major order for its compact and lightweight, solid-state RF power amplifiers. ... more 
Pristine space rock offers NASA scientists peek at evolution of life's building blocksGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 During a 2012 expedition to Antarctica, a team of Japanese and Belgian researchers picked up a small rock that appeared coal black against the snow white. Now known as meteorite Asuka 12236, it was ... more 
Orion Window Panel Complete for Front-Row View on Artemis Moon MissionHuntsville AL (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 As NASA's Orion spacecraft approaches the Moon on the Artemis III mission to put the first woman and next man on the lunar surface, the crew will get a glimpse through the spacecraft's windows. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 29, 2020 
The Chinese Astronomical Society (CAS) has recently released the list of recommended Chinese names of 1,136 Mars craters on its website.
The data will be available for public use. Users can find the Chinese names at Glossary of Astronomical Terms operated by the National Astronomical Data Center.
Previously, the CAS had released the first batch of recommended Chinese names of 811 Mar ... more |
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Aug 29, 2020 
Astronaut Doug "Wheels" Wheelock spent his NASA career expanding knowledge of living and working in space. His new mission is working to determine the best way to train astronauts to return to the surface of the Moon.
Wheelock is a veteran test pilot and retired U.S. Army colonel who has accumulated 178 days in space and was a guest speaker at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Cal ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 
Europa's outer icy shell has completely reoriented itself in one of the last geologic events recorded on its young surface. Europa's poles are not where they used to be. Cracks in the surface of Jupiter's icy moon indicate its shell of ice rotated by 70 degrees sometime in the last several million years. In addition to supporting prior evidence for the existence of a subsurface ocean, it also me ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 26, 2020 
Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as bacteria, transported through space, and landing on another planet. The bacteria finding suitable conditions for its survival could then start multiplying again, sparking life at the other side of the universe.
This theory, called "panspermia", support the possibility that microbes may migrate between planets and distribute life in the universe. Long ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Aug 29, 2020 
SpaceX plans to launch an Earth observation satellite for Argentina's space agency Sunday evening as the first polar orbit mission from Florida in more than 50 years.
A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off with the SAOCOM 1B satellite at 7:19 p.m. EDT from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
This rocket is to head south over the Atlantic Ocean, while most Florida laun ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 24, 2020 
China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled more than 8 million km away from Earth and is functioning normally, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration Thursday.
As of 11:20 pm Wednesday, the Mars probe has traveled 8.23 million km away from Earth. Starting from 10:20 pm Wednesday, multiple payloads on the Mars probe, including M ... more |
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 St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 29, 2020 
A new study finds that Earth's water may have come from materials that were present in the inner solar system at the time the planet formed - instead of far-reaching comets or asteroids delivering such water. The findings published Aug. 28 in Science suggest that Earth may have always been wet.
Researchers from the Centre de Recherches Petrographiques et Geochimiques (CRPG, CNRS/Universite ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 11, 2020 
The Army is evaluating new air and missile defense systems - and testing laser weapons - after postponing some tests due to COVID-19.
Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment and 3rd Bn., 6th Air Defense Artillery Air Missile Defense Test Detachment are involved in a limited user test of the Integrated Battle Command System that began in early July, accordi ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 
The U.S. Army successfully intercepted a high-performance, high-speed tactical ballistic missile (TBM) target and a cruise missile target during a flight test using the Northrop Grumman Corporation Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS).
The target missiles were part of the second of two live-fire tests during the Army's IBCS Limited User Test (LUT) at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexic ... 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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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 
When LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, and its European counterpart, Virgo, detect a gravitational ripple from space, a public alert is sent out. That alert lets researchers know with a decently high confidence that this ripple was probably caused by an exceptional cosmic event, such as the collision of neutron stars or the merging of black holes, somewhere in the un ... more |
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 Wurzburg, Germany (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 
Black holes are at the center of almost all galaxies that have been studied so far. They have an unimaginably large mass and therefore attract matter, gas and even light. But they can also emit matter in the form of plasma jets - a kind of plasma beam that is ejected from the centre of the galaxy with tremendous energy. A plasma jet can extend several hundred thousand light years far into space. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 27, 2020 
A small Maryland company took first place in last week's AlphaDogfight Trials Final event, a three-day competition designed to demonstrate advanced algorithms capable of performing simulated, within-visual-range air combat maneuvering - commonly known as a dogfight.
Heron Systems' F-16 AI agent defeated seven other companies' F-16 AI agents and then went on to dominate the main event - a s ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 19, 2020 
Britain and Belgium signed a statement of intent to work together after both countries acquire the MQ-9B drone, they announced this week.
The Remotely Piloted Aircraft System is built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems of San Diego, and is known as the Protector RG Mk1 in Europe.
In remote signing ceremonies on Tuesday, Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston of the Royal Air Force a ... more |
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