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  Washington DC (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) has announced the release of a number of recommendations addressing the issue of space traffic management, with the goal of supporting a long-term sustainable and safe space environment for commercial satellites and spacecraft. The recommendations were included in a SIA White Paper titled "The Future of Space and Space Traffic Coordination and Management (STCM)". The White Paper shares SIA and its members' views and recommendations regarding the creation of ... read more |
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Preserved dune fields offer insights into Martian historyTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 The discovery of Martian dune fields largely preserved in the rock record for up to a billion years offers new insights on past climatic conditions on Mars. Mapping extensive sedimentary rock ... more  
Arrokoth: Flattening of a snowmanKatlenburg-Lindau, Germany (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 The many millions of bodies populating the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune's orbit are yet to reveal many of their secrets. In the 1980s, the space probes Pioneer 1 and 2 as well as Voyager 1 and 2 cross ... more  
NASA Asks: What Would You Pack for the Moon?Washington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 While advancing its Artemis program - which includes sending the first woman and next man to the lunar surface in 2024 - NASA wants to know what you would pack for a trip to the Moon. The agency kic ... more  
Interplanetary storm chasingBoston MA (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 With its dazzling system of icy rings, Saturn has been a subject of fascination since ancient times. Even now the sixth planet from the sun holds many mysteries, partly because its distance away mak ... more |
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AI helps scientists discover fresh craters on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 05, 2020 Sometime between March 2010 and May 2012, a meteor streaked across the Martian sky and broke into pieces, slamming into the planet's surface. The resulting craters were relatively small - just 13 fe ... more 
A roadmap for science on the moonBoulder CO (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have laid out a roadmap for a decade of scientific research at the Moon. Teams from the university will participate in four upcoming or propose ... more  
Recipe is different, But Titan has ingredients for lifeLondon, Canada (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 Catherine Neish is counting the days until her space launch. While the Western planetary geologist isn't space-suiting up for her own interstellar voyage, she is playing a key role in an internation ... more 
The way forward to MarsParis (ESA) Oct 05, 2020 The path that ExoMars 2022 will follow to reach the Red Planet is set. The trajectory that will take the spacecraft from Earth to Mars in 264 days foresees a touchdown on the martian surface on 10 J ... more 
The most sensitive optical receivers yet for space communicationsGothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 Communications in space demand the most sensitive receivers possible for maximum reach, while also requiring high bit-rate operations. A novel concept for laser-beam based communications, using an a ... more |
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Eighteen new astronauts chosen for China's space station missionBeijing (XNA) Oct 01, 2020 The third batch of Chinese astronauts has been selected for the nation's coming space station mission, the China Manned Space Agency said on Thursday morning. The 18 new astronauts - 17 men an ... more  |
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Searching for the chemistry of lifeHamburg, Germany (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 In the search for the chemical origins of life, researchers have found a possible alternative path for the emergence of the characteristic DNA pattern: According to the experiments, the characterist ... more  
Sensor with 100,000 times higher sensitivity could bolster thermal imagingResearch Triangle Park NC (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 Army-funded research developed a new microwave radiation sensor with 100,000 times higher sensitivity than currently available commercial sensors. Researchers said better detection of microwave radi ... more  
First tests for landing the Martian Moons eXploration RoverBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will have a German-French rover on board when it is launched in 2024. The rover will land on the Martian moon Ph ... more 
First direct observation of exoplanet Beta Pictoris cGarching, Germany (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 Astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument at the VLT telescopes in Chile have now obtained the first direct confirmation of an exoplanet discovered by radial velocity. As the planet "Beta Pictoris c" ... more  
MUSC researchers test brain stimulation in zero gravityCharleston SC (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 "It's exciting. I love this stuff!" said Bashar Badran, Ph.D. "This is so fun." Not many researchers get the chance to float, weightless, 32,000 feet above the Earth. Medical University of South Car ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 
The discovery of Martian dune fields largely preserved in the rock record for up to a billion years offers new insights on past climatic conditions on Mars.
Mapping extensive sedimentary rock deposits in the Valles Marineris region of Mars show clear evidence for preserved lithification and burial of dune fields, a paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Matthew Chojnacki s ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 
While advancing its Artemis program - which includes sending the first woman and next man to the lunar surface in 2024 - NASA wants to know what you would pack for a trip to the Moon. The agency kicked off a new social media campaign this week asking participants to share what would be in their lunar suitcases online using #NASAMoonKit.
To take the challenge to the next level, the agency a ... more |
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 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 
The many millions of bodies populating the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune's orbit are yet to reveal many of their secrets. In the 1980s, the space probes Pioneer 1 and 2 as well as Voyager 1 and 2 crossed this region - but without cameras on board.
NASA's spacecraft New Horizons sent the first images from the outermost edge of the solar system to Earth: in the summer of 2015 of dwarf planet Pl ... more |
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 Pullman WA (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 
Earth is not necessarily the best planet in the universe. Researchers have identified two dozen planets outside our solar system that may have conditions more suitable for life than our own. Some of these orbit stars that may be better than even our sun.
A study led by Washington State University scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch recently published in the journal Astrobiology details character ... more |
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 Woodbine GA (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 
Camden County and the Center for Business Analytics and Economic Research (CBAER) at Georgia Southern University has released a new study on the economic impact of space tourism on coastal Georgia. The report estimates that a single launch could attract approximately 4,000-5,000 visitors to the area.
CBAER estimates that 38 to 45 jobs connected to tourism and hospitality would be supported ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 01, 2020 
The third batch of Chinese astronauts has been selected for the nation's coming space station mission, the China Manned Space Agency said on Thursday morning.
The 18 new astronauts - 17 men and one woman - are in three groups: seven will become spacecraft pilots, another seven will turn into spaceflight engineers, and the last four will be mission payload specialists, the agency said in a ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
On 15 September, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed with the German company OHB the 129.4-million euro contract covering the detailed design, manufacturing, and testing of the HERA mission. This mission, ESA's first ever planetary defense mission, will be Europe's contribution to an international asteroid deflection effort carried out jointly with NASA and due for lift-off in October 2024. ... more |
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 Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 23, 2020  Since the mid-1960s few weapons have held as much potential and have constantly failed to live up to that potential as Directed Energy Weapons (DEW). However, since the turn of this century even as most countries have curtailed both their hopes and funding from the highs of decades past, DEWs have gradually and quietly matured.
DEWs use the electromagnetic spectrum (light and radio energy) ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 01, 2020 
US Army officials unveiled plans on Tuesday for a vehicle-mounted electronic jamming system that will uniquely have the ability to jam incoming projectiles, fouling their targeting in the moments before impact.
At the Army's CEMAlite conference on Tuesday, three Army colonels discussed a new electronic warfare system they hope to employ in the coming years to disrupt enemy weapons systems ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 
With its dazzling system of icy rings, Saturn has been a subject of fascination since ancient times. Even now the sixth planet from the sun holds many mysteries, partly because its distance away makes direct observation difficult and partly because this gas giant (which is multiple times the size of our planet) has a composition and atmosphere, mostly hydrogen and helium, so unlike that of Earth ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 07, 2020 
"Eat your vitamins" might be replaced with "ingest your ceramic nano-particles" in the future as space research is giving more weight to the idea that nanoscopic particles could help protect cells from common causes of damage.
Oxidative stress occurs in our bodies when cells lose the natural balance of electrons in the molecules that we are made of. This is a common and constant occurrence ... more |
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 
Gravitational wave scientists looking for evidence of 'lensing,' in which the faintest gravitational wave signals become amplified, are unlikely to make these detections in the near future according to new analysis by scientists at the University of Birmingham.
A team in the University's School of Physics and Astronomy and the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy has analysed current ... more |
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 London (AFP) Oct 6, 2020 
Nobel physics laureate Roger Penrose on Tuesday said his late colleague Stephen Hawking richly deserved a share of the prize after the British scientists conducted pioneering research into black holes.
Penrose, 89, told reporters that he had just come out of the shower when he received confirmation of the prize from the Nobel committee.
"I wasn't expecting it at all. It's a huge honour a ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 
DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge will host its Cave Circuit Virtual Competition, which focuses on innovative solutions to map, navigate, and search complex, simulated cave environments November 17. Previously, DARPA held Tunnel Circuit and Urban Circuit events featuring both Virtual and Systems (physical) Competitions in which teams demonstrated their autonomy, networking, perception, and m ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (AFNS) Oct 07, 2020 
The SkyVision team, a joint effort between the Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, the state of Ohio, and industry partners, has been selected as the first-place winner in the Technology and Innovation (Hardware - Platform) category of this year's Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) Awards.
AUVSI made the announcement in an Oct ... more |
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