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  Washington DC (UPI) Nov 30, 2021 NASA delayed a spacewalk that was scheduled to occur Tuesday morning, to replace broken hardware outside the International Space Station, due to a warning about possible dangerous debris. NASA had planned for Thomas Marshburn, 61, and Kayla Barron, 34, to exit the space station about 7:10 a.m. EST for more than six hours. The spacewalk would be Marshburn's fifth and Barron's first. The spacewalk was scheduled as NASA grappled with increased risk of space debris that could damage the spac ... read more |
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Guiding Tianwen-1 to China's first successful Mars rover landingBeijing, China (SPX) Nov 30, 2021 Mars landing missions only succeed about half the time, a rate largely determined by the entry, descent and landing (EDL) phase, according to the researchers who designed Tianwen-1's control systems ... more  
New possibilities for life at the bottom of Earth and other Oceanic WorldsTempe AZ (SPX) Nov 29, 2021 In the strange, dark world of the ocean floor, underwater fissures, called hydrothermal vents, host complex communities of life. These vents belch scorching hot fluids into extremely cold seawater, ... more  
Doing photon upconversion a solid-Crystals that convert light to more useful wavelengthsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 26, 2021 Solid-solution organic crystals have been brought into the quest for superior photon upconversion materials, which transform presently wasted long-wavelength light into more useful shorter wavelengt ... more 
Eagle professor's space debris removal device receives patentDaytona Beach FL (SPX) Nov 30, 2021 An Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University professor and his co-inventors patented a device that provides a workable strategy for combating the problem of debris accumulating in space from defunct sate ... more |
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430-foot asteroid expected to swipe past Earth on MondayWashington DC (UPI) Nov 29, 2021 An asteroid that measures the same size as the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza, is expected to pass by Earth on Monday afternoon, according to NASA. ... more  
Asteroid material deposited during large impacts record the moon's ancient magnetic fieldWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 01, 2021 The moon has no core dynamo magnetic field, but spacecraft detect numerous strong localized magnetic fields in the crust of the moon. Many of these magnetic anomalies are antipodal to large impact b ... more  
Are Water Plumes Spraying from EuropaGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 01, 2021 In 2005, images of a brilliant watery plume erupting from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus captivated the world. The giant column of vapor, ice particles, and organic molecules spraying from t ... more 
Orbital harmony limits late arrival of water on TRAPPIST-1 planetsHouston TX (SPX) Nov 26, 2021 Seven Earth-sized planets orbit the star TRAPPIST-1 in near-perfect harmony, and U.S. and European researchers have used that harmony to determine how much physical abuse the planets could have with ... more  
Tianzhou cargo craft to help advance scienceBeijing (XNA) Nov 29, 2021 Chinese scientists, researchers and engineers now have the opportunity to use the country's robotic cargo spacecraft to carry out experiments and tests, according to the China Manned Space Agency. ... more |
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Mining tech heads for the stars as IMDEX backs lunar rover projectPerth, Australia (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 Mining-tech leaders IMDEX - the company behind breakthrough drill and blast technology BLASTDOG TM - is backing development of an Australian-made lunar rover that NASA could send to the moon by 2026 ... more 
Curiosity sends a picture postcard from MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 24, 2021 NASA's Curiosity rover captured a remarkable image from its most recent perch on the side of Mars' Mount Sharp. The mission team was so inspired by the beauty of the landscape, they combined two ver ... more 
Prototype SETI hardware gets first data from VLACharlottesville VA (SPX) Nov 26, 2021 A system designed to provide data from the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) for analysis in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has successfully ac ... more 
Hubble Finds Flame Nebula's Searing Stars May Halt Planet FormationBaltimore MD (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 The Flame Nebula or NGC 2024 is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. Hubble studied this nebula to look for protoplanetary disks, or " ... more 
Molding, patterning and driving liquids with lightHouston TX (SPX) Dec 01, 2021 Jiming Bao, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston, has developed a new fluid that can be cut open by light and demonstrated macroscopic depression of ferroflu ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Nov 30, 2021 
Mars landing missions only succeed about half the time, a rate largely determined by the entry, descent and landing (EDL) phase, according to the researchers who designed Tianwen-1's control systems. They published their guidance, navigation and control approach for Tianwen-1 on October 16 in Space: Science and Technology.
"The EDL phase, which begins at the Mars atmosphere interface and e ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 
Mining-tech leaders IMDEX - the company behind breakthrough drill and blast technology BLASTDOG TM - is backing development of an Australian-made lunar rover that NASA could send to the moon by 2026.
IMDEX is part of a group of companies supporting Australian Remote Operations for Space and Earth (AROSE) that is looking to leverage autonomous technology prevalent in the mining sector for u ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 01, 2021 
In 2005, images of a brilliant watery plume erupting from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus captivated the world. The giant column of vapor, ice particles, and organic molecules spraying from the moon's south polar region suggested that there's a liquid water ocean below Enceladus' ice shell and confirmed the moon is geologically active. The plume also thrust Enceladus and other worlds in t ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Nov 26, 2021 
A system designed to provide data from the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) for analysis in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has successfully acquired data from a VLA antenna. The system - dubbed COSMIC: the Commensal Open Source Multimode Interferometer Cluster - is designed to receive data from a newly-developed parallel Ethernet interface ... more |
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 Long Beach CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 
Rocket Lab has confirmed it will attempt to catch a returning rocket booster mid-air with a helicopter during the company's next recovery mission. The confirmation follows the successful demonstration of helicopter shadow operations for the first time during the company's 22nd Electron launch last week in the company's latest effort to make Electron the world's first reusable, orbital-class comm ... more |
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 Wuhan (XNA) Nov 26, 2021 
The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Limited (CASIC) said that it completed the construction of an intelligent satellite production line and a rocket industrial park in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
Located in the Wuhan National Aerospace Industry Base, both the production line and the industrial park went into operation, said Liu Shiquan, general manager of the CASIC. ... more |
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 College Park MD (SPX) Dec 01, 2021 
A new study by University of Maryland astronomers shows that comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (BB), the largest comet ever discovered, was active long before previously thought, meaning the ice within it is vaporizing and forming an envelope of dust and vapor known as a coma. Only one active comet has been observed farther from the sun, and it was much smaller than comet BB.
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate is partnering with The University of New Mexico (UNM) to establish a center for directed energy studies, a congressionally-funded endeavor.
The Directed Energy Center will be based at UNM and jointly managed by UNM's School of Engineering and UNM's Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM). AFRL is recognized as the nation's ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Nov 25, 2021 
Russia on Thursday successfully placed into orbit a military satellite believed to be part of the Kremlin's early warning anti-missile system.
A Soyuz rocket carrying a classified payload blasted off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia in the early hours of Thursday morning, the defence ministry said.
At 0109 GMT a rocket was launched that put a "space apparatus into orbit in ... more |
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Oct 18, 2021 
Strike-slip faulting, the type of motion common to California's well-known San Andreas Fault, was reported recently to possibly occur on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. New research, led by planetary scientists from the University of Hawai?i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), suggests this tectonic motion may be active on Titan, deforming the icy surface.
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 Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 27, 2021 
It is an intuitive rule of thumb: if you reduce the density of a material, its stiffness will also be reduced. But scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US noticed that materials that are based on sandwich nanotubes retained their stiffness at lower densities.
Modelling by materials scientists from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) revealed how this ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Nov 09, 2021 
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration unveiled several studies that shed important new light on the nature of gravitational waves-ripples in time and space produced by merging black holes and/or neutron stars. They include a "census" of gravitational wave events to date and a new catalog of results from the second half of its third observing run (O3b), describing 90 gravitational wave events observ ... more |
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 Sendai, Japan (SPX) Dec 01, 2021 
Researchers at Tohoku University and the University of Gothenburg have established a new spintronic technology for brain-inspired computing.
Their achievement was published in the journal Nature Materials on Nov. 29, 2021.
Sophisticated cognitive tasks, such as image and speech recognition, have seen recent breakthroughs thanks to deep learning. Even so, the human brain still execute ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 26, 2021 
It looks like a normal car but the white taxi by the kerb has nobody driving it, and communicates with customers digitally to obtain directions and take payment.
Beijing this week approved its first autonomous taxis for commercial use, bringing dozens of the so-called "robotaxis" to the streets of the Chinese capital.
The vehicles can only carry two passengers at a time and are confined ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 
Personnel from the Spanish Army's Paratrooper Brigade (BRIPAC) have evaluated the operability of the Class I Micro Passer UAS system from Aurea Avionics and GMV, a 1.9 kg unmanned aircraft designed to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to defense and security users.
The event took place in October at the Casas de Uceda Firing and Maneuvering Range (CMT ... more |
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