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  Brampton, Canada (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 The OSAM-1 mission, formerly known as Restore-L, will demonstrate robotic servicing technologies in orbit, including satellite refueling, assembly and in-space manufacturing. The SPIDER payload's lightweight 16-foot (5-metre) robotic arm will assemble multiple antenna reflector elements to form a single, functional 9-foot (3-metre) communications Ka-band antenna. MDA has announced that it has signed multiple contracts with Maxar Technologies to provide advanced space robotics technologies for the ... read more |
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Danger in sun-synchronous orbitsBethesda MD (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 Sun-synchronous orbits are orbits that are ideal for earth observations in connection with civil and defense applications. Therefore, many satellites have been placed in such orbits. Since the ... more  
China prepares to launch Long March-5 rocket for Chang'e-5 missionWenchang (XNA) Nov 18, 2020 The fifth Long March-5 rocket, to be used to launch China's Chang'e-5 lunar probe, was vertically transported to the launching area at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Pro ... more  
China's Mars probe travels over 300 million kmBeijing (XNA) Nov 18, 2020 China's Tianwen 1 Mars probe had traveled 300 million kilometers as of Tuesday morning, according to the China National Space Administration. The administration said in a statement that the sp ... more  
Building blocks of life can form long before starsLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 An international team of scientists have shown that glycine, the simplest amino acid and an important building block of life, can form under the harsh conditions that govern chemistry in space. ... more |
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Heat and dust help launch Martian water into space, scientists findGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 Scientists using an instrument aboard NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, spacecraft have discovered that water vapor near the surface of the Red Planet is lofted higher into th ... more 
Moon Mark and Lunar Outpost announce partnership for racers to land on the Moon in 2021Reno NV (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 Moon Mark, the entertainment and education company that will sponsor the first-ever race on the Moon in 2021, has announced it will partner with Golden, CO-based Lunar Outpost to secure the two race ... more 
Hear audio from Perseverance as it travels through deep spacePasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2020 A microphone aboard NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has recorded the sounds of the spacecraft as it hurtles through interplanetary space. While another mic aboard the rover is intended specifica ... more 
Northrop Grumman completes PDR for NASA's Gateway Crew ModuleDulles VA (SPX) Nov 19, 2020 Northrop Grumman has completed its initial preliminary design review (PDR) event for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO). The module will serve as living quarters for astronauts at the Gatew ... more 
ExoMars parachute testing moves forwardParis (ESA) Nov 19, 2020 The parachute system that will help deliver the Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover to Mars has completed the first full-scale high altitude drop test with redesigned elements following two unsuccessful ... more |
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Swedish space instrument participates in the search for life around JupiterStockholm, Sweden (SPX) Nov 19, 2020 The Swedish-led satellite instrument Particle Environment Package (PEP) will help researchers at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) to understand how three of Jupiter's icy moons are affec ... more  |
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Astroscale announces March 2021 Launch Date for Debris Removal DemonstrationTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 19, 2020 Astroscale Holdings Inc. ("Astroscale"), the market-leader in securing long-term orbital sustainability, has announced that its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission will ... more 
New Interdisciplinary Consortium for Astrobiology ResearchSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 The NASA Astrobiology Program has awarded a five-year, $5 million grant to an interdisciplinary consortium led by the University of California, Santa Cruz, to trace the volatile elements that form t ... more  
Pandemic casts shadow over India's festival of lightNew Delhi (AFP) Nov 14, 2020 Fear of the coronavirus and chronic pollution spoiled the party Saturday as hundreds of millions of Indians celebrated the biggest Hindu holiday of the year. ... more  
Machine learning guarantees robots' performance in unknown territoryPrinceton NJ (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 A small drone takes a test flight through a space filled with randomly placed cardboard cylinders acting as stand-ins for trees, people or structures. The algorithm controlling the drone has been tr ... more  
Advanced atomic clock makes a better dark matter detectorWashington DC (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 JILA researchers have used a state-of-the-art atomic clock to narrow the search for elusive dark matter, an example of how continual improvements in clocks have value beyond timekeeping. Older ... more |
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 London, Canada (SPX) Nov 19, 2020 
NASA is working towards sending humans to Mars by 2030. If all goes according to plan, the flight crew's return trip to the red planet will take about two-and-half years. That's a long time to spend, uninterrupted, with co-workers. Now, imagine if the astronauts don't get along with each other?
To help ensure that doesn't happen, a new study led by Western University tested team dynamics o ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 18, 2020 
Renowned architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, originator of many of the world's tallest skyscrapers, has been working on an even more challenging design: a habitat for a future Moon Village. Their proposal has undergone rigorous examination by ESA experts at the Agency's mission-evaluating Concurrent Design Facility.
This review process flagged various issues but found no show- ... more |
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Nov 19, 2020 
The Swedish-led satellite instrument Particle Environment Package (PEP) will help researchers at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) to understand how three of Jupiter's icy moons are affected by the particles around Jupiter and search for the pre-conditions for life. After 14 years of work, the instrument is ready to take its place on ESA's Jupiter spacecraft JUICE.
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
The NASA Astrobiology Program has awarded a five-year, $5 million grant to an interdisciplinary consortium led by the University of California, Santa Cruz, to trace the volatile elements that form the atmospheres of planets, establishing a scientific foundation for detecting the signatures of life on other worlds.
Natalie Batalha, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, w ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
UK rocket company, Skyrora, has conducted a series of static test fires of its 3rd stage LEO engine, including a vacuum chamber test, designed to replicate space-like conditions to further advance its launch ambitions.
All tests, totalling 100 and conducted at the company's Engine Test Complex located in Fife, Scotland, were successful, and the results met Skyrora's test criteria. This mea ... more |
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 Wuhan, China (XNA) Oct 23, 2020 
China's manned space program has entered the mission preparation stage with the selection of a new group of 18 reserve astronauts. According to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), the reserve astronauts, including one female, have been selected recently from 2,500 candidates. Among them are seven spacecraft pilots, seven space flight engineers and four payload experts.
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
A new study by Southwest Research Institute scientists describes how they have expanded the capabilities of the prototype spaceflight instrument Chemistry Organic and Dating Experiment (CODEX), designed for field-based dating of extraterrestrial materials.
CODEX now uses two different dating approaches based on rubidium-strontium and lead-lead geochronology methods. The instrument uses las ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 17, 2020 
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS John Finn intercepted and destroyed an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile-representative target with a Standard Missile-3 Block IIA missile during a flight test demonstration Monday.
The target was launched from Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in Hawaii toward the broad ocean area northeast of the sta ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 30, 2020 
Scientists have used data from NASA's Cassini mission to delve into the impact craters on the surface of Titan, revealing more detail than ever before about how the craters evolve and how weather drives changes on the surface of Saturn's mammoth moon.
Like Earth, Titan has a thick atmosphere that acts as a protective shield from meteoroids; meanwhile, erosion and other geologic processes e ... more |
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 Upton NY (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
Three-dimensional (3-D) nanostructured materials - those with complex shapes at a size scale of billionths of a meter - that can conduct electricity without resistance could be used in a range of quantum devices. For example, such 3-D superconducting nanostructures could find application in signal amplifiers to enhance the speed and accuracy of quantum computers and ultrasensitive magnetic field ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 19, 2020 
What resembles a donut or the iris of an eye is actually a liquid cell illuminated from below.
Part of the Chemo-Hydrodynamic Patterns and Instabilities (CHYPI) experiment that recently flew on the 73rd ESA parabolic flight campaign, this cell has a lot to offer the chemical solutions industry.
Researchers behind CHYPI are seeking to validate a theoretical model, developed by Anne De ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 19, 2020 
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will detect vestiges of sound waves that once rippled through the primordial cosmic sea. According to new simulations, Roman's observations could extend these measurements into an unprobed epoch between the universe's infancy and the present day. Studying the echoes from this era will help us trace the evolution of the universe and solve pressing cosmic c ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
A small drone takes a test flight through a space filled with randomly placed cardboard cylinders acting as stand-ins for trees, people or structures. The algorithm controlling the drone has been trained on a thousand simulated obstacle-laden courses, but it's never seen one like this. Still, nine times out of 10, the pint-sized plane dodges all the obstacles in its path.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 16, 2020 
The French Defense Ministry seeks an unmanned aerial vehicle capable of intercepting radio communications transmitters, a request for proposal indicates.
A "call for projects for a mini-payload of electronic support on drones" was revealed by France's Defense Innovation Agency for "an electronic support payload that can be integrated into drones with a maximum take-off mass of less than ... more |
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