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  Washington (AFP) Oct 13, 2020 NASA announced on Tuesday that eight countries have signed an international agreement called the Artemis Accords that outlines the principles of future exploration of the Moon and beyond. The treaty paves the way for its founding members - Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, United Arab Emirates, Britain and the United States - to participate in NASA's Artemis program, which aims to return humans to Earth's nearest neighbor by 2024. "Artemis will be the broadest and most diverse inter ... read more |
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NASA, JAXA to Send Sampling Technology to Moon and PhobosPasadena CA (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 NASA and Japan's space agency JAXA have selected a new low-cost sample collection technology for 2 missions to the Moon and the Martian moon Phobos. PlanetVac, developed by Altadena, Californi ... more 
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 23rd lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Oct 13, 2020 The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 23rd lunar day on the far side of the moon. The lander woke up at 11:56 a.m. Sunday, Beijing Time, and the rover Yutu-2, o ... more  
U.S. space mining policies may trigger regulatory 'race to the bottom,'Washington DC (UPI) Oct 08, 2020 In a newly published policy paper, a pair of Canadian scientists warn that the United States is angling to establish itself as the de facto gatekeeper of the moon and other celestial bodies. ... more 
NASA's Perseverance Rover Will Peer Beneath Mars' SurfacePasadena CA (JPL) Oct 09, 2020 After touching down on the Red Planet Feb. 18, 2021, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will scour Jezero Crater to help us understand its geologic history and search for signs of past microbial li ... more |
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China's Mars probe completes deep-space maneuverBeijing (XNA) Oct 11, 2020 China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 successfully conducted a deep-space maneuver on Friday night (Beijing time), according to the China National Space Administration. The probe completed the maneuver ... more  
Helping robots avoid collisionsBoston MA (SPX) Sep 18, 2020 George Konidaris still remembers his disheartening introduction to robotics. "When you're a young student and you want to program a robot, the first thing that hits you is this immense disappointmen ... more 
Subterranean Challenge Identifies Qualified Teams for Cave Circuit Virtual CompetitionWashington 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 ... more 
SwRI scientists study the rugged surface of near-Earth asteroid BennuSan Antonio AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2020 As the days count down to NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's Touch-And-Go asteroid sample collection attempt, Southwest Research Institute scientists have helped determine what the spacecraft can expect ... more  
NASA, space industry seek new ways to cope with space debrisOrlando FL (UPI) Oct 07, 2020 NASA's official watchdog panel has renewed calls for the agency to move faster on a plan to better track and mitigate dangers posed by orbiting debris in space. Members of NASA's Aerospace Saf ... more |
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 Russia shuns US lunar program, as space cooperation under threat
The current state of Space DebrisParis (ESA) Oct 13, 2020 The number of debris objects, their combined mass, and the total area they take up has been steadily increasing since the beginning of the space age. This is further fuelled by a large number of in- ... more  |
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Engineers print wearable sensors directly on skin without heatUniversity Park PA (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 Wearable sensors are evolving from watches and electrodes to bendable devices that provide far more precise biometric measurements and comfort for users. Now, an international team of researchers ha ... more 
ESA's force-feedback rover controlled from a nation awayParis (ESA) Oct 13, 2020 A controller in Germany operated ESA's gripper-equipped Interact rover around a simulated moonscape at the Agency's technical heart in the Netherlands, to practice retrieving geological samples. At ... more 
What tiny surfing robots teach us about surface tensionHoughton MI (SPX) Oct 11, 2020 Spend an afternoon by a creek in the woods, and you're likely to notice water striders - long-legged insects that dimple the surface of the water as they skate across. Or, dip one side of a toothpic ... more  
Intelligent nanomaterials for photonicsJena, Germany (SPX) Oct 08, 2020 At the latest since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for research on graphene in 2010, 2D materials - nanosheets with atomic thickness - have been a hot topic in science. This significan ... more 
NASA's OSIRIS-REx unlocks more secrets from Asteroid BennuTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2020 NASA's first asteroid sample return mission now knows much more about the material it'll be collecting in just a few weeks. In a special collection of six papers published in the journals Science an ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 09, 2020 
After touching down on the Red Planet Feb. 18, 2021, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will scour Jezero Crater to help us understand its geologic history and search for signs of past microbial life. But the six-wheeled robot won't be looking just at the surface of Mars: The rover will peer deep below it with a ground-penetrating radar called RIMFAX.
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 13, 2020 
The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 23rd lunar day on the far side of the moon.
The lander woke up at 11:56 a.m. Sunday, Beijing Time, and the rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, woke up at 6:57 p.m. Saturday, said sources with the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
A lunar day is equal to 14 days on Ea ... 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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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 09, 2020 
WASP-121b is an exoplanet located 850 light years from Earth, orbiting its star in less than two days - a process that takes Earth a year to complete. WASP-121b is very close to its star - about 40 times closer than Earth to the Sun. This close proximity is also the main reason for its immensely high temperature of around 2,500 to 3,000 degrees Celsius. This makes it an ideal object of study to ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 13, 2020  Blue Origin successfully launched a NASA moon landing experiment aboard the company's reusable New Shepard rocket Tuesday morning in Texas.
Liftoff took place from the company's launch facilities about 150 miles east of El Paso.
The capsule separated from the rocket minutes into the flight and spent about three minutes at the height of an arc just over the Kármán line, the alti ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 13, 2020 
Southwest China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center will carry out 10 space launches including the Chang'e 5 lunar probe by the end of March next year, a center official said on Monday.
The center will carry out launch missions twice a month on average, with a minimum interval of five days, said Zhang Xueyu, director of the launch center.
The country on Monday sent its new optical remo ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 08, 2020 
In a newly published policy paper, a pair of Canadian scientists warn that the United States is angling to establish itself as the de facto gatekeeper of the moon and other celestial bodies.
Earlier this year, NASA published a new set of rules for lunar mining and other space activities, dubbing the voluntary guidelines the "Artemis Accords."
Aaron Boley and Michael Byers, author ... 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 08, 2020 
The US Space Force's Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded two contracts on Monday to build eight satellites for its upcoming infrared missile detection constellation. However, these are just the first in what could become a vast network of thousands of satellites in orbit.
On Monday, the SDA awarded information technology firm L3Harris Technologies a $193.6 million contract and private s ... 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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 College Park MD (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 
It's been three years since the landmark detection of a neutron star merger from gravitational waves. And since that day, an international team of researchers led by University of Maryland astronomer Eleonora Troja has been continuously monitoring the subsequent radiation emissions to provide the most complete picture of such an event.
Their analysis provides possible explanations for X-ra ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Oct 09, 2020 
Black holes are one the most fascinating objects in the Universe. At their surface, known as the 'event horizon', gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from them. Usually, black holes are quiet, silent creatures that swallow anything getting too close to them; however, when two black holes collide and merge together, they produce one of the most catastrophic events in Universe: in ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 05, 2020 
Boeing said on Monday it will design and develop military aircraft, including unmanned vehicles, in Australia - the first time it has done so outside the United States.
The decision will also mark the first time a military aircraft has been totally designed, engineered and manufactured in Australia in over 50 years, Boeing officials said.
Boeing unveiled a model of the unmanned ... more |
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