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  Washington (AFP) Oct 12, 2020 Russia is unlikely to participate in the Moon-orbiting station planned by the United States, a Russian official said Monday, marking the probable end of the type of close cooperation seen for two decades on the International Space Station (ISS). The proposed new station, called the Gateway, "is too US-centric, so to speak," Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said, adding Russia was "likely to refrain from participating in it on a large scale." Speaking by videolink t ... read more |
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Airbus to bring first Mars samples to EarthToulouse, France (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as prime contractor for the Mars Sample Return's Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) - the first ever spacecraft to bring samples back to Earth fro ... more 
NASA announces eight-nation space coalition under 'Artemis Accords'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. ... more  
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 
US remains hopeful Russia will join Artemis Space Coalition to Moon, NASA Admin saysWashington DC (Sputnik) Oct 14, 2020 The United States remains hopeful that Russia will join its Artemis program to return humans to the surface of the Moon by 2024, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Ji ... more |
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Earth-like planets often come with a bodyguardHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 Scientists suspect that the planet Jupiter played an important role in the development of life on Earth, because its gravity often deflects potentially dangerous asteroids and comets on their orbits ... more 
No social distancing at the beginning of lifeZagreb, Croatia (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 Bacteria are a dominant form of life that inhabit every environment on Earth. This includes human bodies, where they outnumber our cells and genes and regulate our existence for good or bad. Bacteri ... 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  
Superconductor technology for smaller, sooner fusionBoston MA (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 Scientists have long sought to harness fusion as an inexhaustible and carbon-free energy source. Within the past few years, groundbreaking high-temperature superconductor technology (HTS) sparked a ... more  
Physicists conduct controlled transport of stored light experimentMainz, Germany (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 A team of physicists led by Professor Patrick Windpassinger at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has successfully transported light stored in a quantum memory over a distance of 1.2 millimet ... 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  |
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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, 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 
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 |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 14, 2020 
A rover trundles over rocky terrain, its four metal wheels clattering along until they encounter a seemingly insurmountable hazard: a steep slope. Down below is a potential trove of science targets. With a typical rover, the operators would need to find another target, but this is DuAxel, a robot built for situations exactly like this.
The rover is actually made of a pair of two-wheeled ro ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
NASA's Artemis programme aims to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. Commercial and international partners will collaborate to achieve a sustainable presence on the lunar surface as a steppingstone to the first human mission to Mars.
The UK will play a key role in this mission. Businesses across the UK will be involved in building the service module and habitation mo ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
In 2015, the New Horizons space probe discovered spectacular snowcapped mountains on Pluto, which are strikingly similar to mountains on Earth. Such a landscape had never before been observed elsewhere in the Solar System.
However, as atmospheric temperatures on our planet decrease at altitude, on Pluto they heat up at altitude as a result of solar radiation. So where does this ice come fr ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
Scientists suspect that the planet Jupiter played an important role in the development of life on Earth, because its gravity often deflects potentially dangerous asteroids and comets on their orbits into the zone of rocky planets in a way that reduces the number of catastrophic collisions.
This circumstance therefore repeatedly raises the question whether such a combination of planets is r ... 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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 Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2020  NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft mission, launched on Sept. 8, 2016, is the first U.S. mission designed to retrieve a pristine sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth for further study. The mission's target is Bennu, a carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid that is potentially hazardous, representing an approximately 1 in 2,700 chance of impacting the Earth late in the 22nd century.
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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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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 09, 2020 
Turkey is preparing live-fire exercises in the Aegean Sea, angering Greece, and has transported its Russian-made S-400 air defense system to the Black Sea.
Turkey, whose military buildup and claims of sovereignty in the Mediterranean Sea have angered Greece, announced it will stage exercises in the Aegean Sea from Oct. 26 to Oct. 28, in Turkish-held and international waters.
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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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 Muenster, Germany (SPX) Oct 08, 2020 
The surface of metals plays a key role in many technologically relevant areas, such as catalysis, sensor technology and battery research. For example, the large-scale production of many chemical compounds takes place on metal surfaces, whose atomic structure determines if and how molecules react with one another.
At the same time, the surface structure of a metal influences its electronic ... more |
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 Paris (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 the same time a smaller Germany-based rover interacted with ESA's rover as if together at the same site - in a dress rehearsal for a robotic test campaign to the Moon-like volcanic slopes of Mount Etn ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2020 
The self-driving car industry has made great autonomy advances, but mostly for well-structured and highly predictable environments. In complex militarily-relevant settings, robotic vehicles have not demonstrated operationally relevant speed and aren't autonomously reliable.
While vehicle platforms that can handle difficult terrain exist, their autonomy algorithms and software often can't p ... more |
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