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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 Etna, scheduled for next year. The scenario behind this week's testing is that in the future, astronauts ab ... read more |
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Astroscale Brings Total Capital Raised to U.S. $191 Million, Closing Series E Funding RoundTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 Astroscale Holdings Inc. ("Astroscale"), the market-leader in securing long-term orbital sustainability, has closed its Series E round with additional funding of U.S. $51 million from a group of inv ... more  
This transforming rover can explore the toughest terrainPasadena 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. ... more  
Ten things to know about BennuWashington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 NASA's first mission to return a sample from an ancient asteroid arrived at its target, the asteroid Bennu, on Dec. 3, 2018. This mission, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identificati ... more  
UK and NASA sign international agreement ahead of mission to the MoonLondon, 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 surf ... more |
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The mountains of Pluto are snowcapped, but not for the same reasons as on EarthParis, 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 elsewh ... more  
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 
Two Planets Around a Red DwarfBern, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 The "SAINT-EX" Observatory, led by scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research NCCR PlanetS of the University of Bern and the University of Geneva, has detected two exoplanets orbi ... more  
BepiColombo Slows Down at Venus En Route to MercuryBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 Approaching Venus from its day side, passing the planet, using its gravitational pull to slow down and continuing on its night side on course for Mercury: on Thursday 15 October 2020, at 05:58 CEST ... more  
China's Xichang launch center to carry out 10 missions by end of MarchBeijing (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 cent ... more |
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 Ottawa researchers find cheaper, faster way to measure the electric field of light  
Zeptoseconds: new world record in short time measurementFrankfurt, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 In 1999, the Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail received the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed at which molecules change their shape. He founded femtochemistry using ultrashort laser flashes: the forma ... more  |
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HeroX helps NASA advance Lunar exploration with a miniaturized payload prototype challengeHouston TX (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 HeroX, the world's leading platform for crowdsourced solutions, has launched the crowdsourcing competition "Honey I Built the NASA Payload, The Sequel" on behalf of the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) and ... more 
NTU Singapore scientists develop 'mini-brains' to help robots recognize pain and to self-repairSingapore (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 Using a brain-inspired approach, scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a way for robots to have the artificial intelligence (AI) to recognise pai ... more 
Natural fibres threaded into satellites for safer missionsParis (ESA) Oct 14, 2020 A natural fibre that once wrapped early Egyptian mummies and was worn by Roman aristocrats has found a space-age purpose. Threading fibres from the flax plant through satellite panel material can he ... more 
Why Scooping an Asteroid Sample Is Harder Than It LooksTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descends toward the surface of Bennu on Oct. 20, it will be the first time that a U.S.-led mission attempts to pick up a sample of pristine material from an asteroi ... more 
NASA to Broadcast OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Collection ActivitiesWashington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 NASA will broadcast coverage of a first for the agency as its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission attempts to collect a sample ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 19, 2020 
NASA's InSight lander continues working to get its "mole" - a 16-inch-long (40-centimeter-long) pile driver and heat probe - deep below the surface of Mars. A camera on InSight's arm recently took images of the now partially filled-in "mole hole," showing only the device's science tether protruding from the ground.
Sensors embedded in the tether are designed to measure heat flowing from th ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 
NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to deliver the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1) drill, combined with a mass spectrometer, to the Moon by December 2022.
The ice drilling mission is the Houston-based company's second Moon contract award under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
"Laying the foundation to return humans to the Moon is an incredi ... 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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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 
The "SAINT-EX" Observatory, led by scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research NCCR PlanetS of the University of Bern and the University of Geneva, has detected two exoplanets orbiting the star TOI-1266. The Mexico-based telescope thus demonstrates its high precision and takes an important step in the quest of finding potentially habitable worlds.
Red dwarfs are the coole ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 16, 2020 
All three engines developed to power Europe's future Ariane 6 rocket have completed extensive tests - the P120C solid rocket motor for the boosters, the Vulcain 2.1 engine for the core stage and the Vinci for the upper stage.
Ariane 6 in the four-booster version will stand 63m tall, will weigh 900 tonnes and have the liftoff power equivalent to 12 Airbus A380 engines roaring at takeoff. ... 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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 Superpower Skill: Perseverance 
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 19, 2020
On October 20, Estelle Church will send the commands instructing NASA's mission to touch asteroid Bennu, becoming NASA's fir ... 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.
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 Bethesda VA (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 
Lockheed Martin teamed with Aerojet Rocketdyne on a proposal to compete for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) contract for The Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
Lockheed Martin is offering an interceptor designed from the ground up as an all-up-round to address all elements of environmental survivability from day one. Our partner Aerojet Rocketdyne will power our primary propulsion to addr ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter, the cosmos' mystery material that has eluded detection for decades. Dark matter makes up about 27% of the universe; ordinary matter, such as the stuff that builds stars and planets, accounts for just 5% of the cosmos. (A mysterious entity called dark ... 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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