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  Tokyo (AFP) Dec 6, 2020 Japan space agency officials on Sunday hailed the arrival of rare asteroid samples on Earth after they were collected by space probe Hayabusa-2 during an unprecedented mission. In a streak of light across the night sky, a capsule containing the precious specimens taken from a distant asteroid arrived on Earth after being dropped off by the probe. Scientists hope the samples, which are expected to amount to no more than 0.1 grams of material, could help shed light on the origin of life and the fo ... read more |
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Chang'e 5 mission completes difficult docking in lunar orbitBeijing (XNA) Dec 06, 2020 Two flying sections of China's Chang'e 5 robotic mission completed a rendezvous and docked with each other early on Sunday before transferring lunar samples collected in the mission. The rende ... more 
China unfurls its first fabric flag on moonWashington DC (UPI) Dec 04, 2020 China's Chang'e-5 lander departed the moon after spending two days on the surface, leaving behind its first official flag. ... more  
Biomining study could unlock future settlements on other worldsLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 07, 2020 Experiments on the International Space Station have shown that the process of "biomining" will work in microgravity; a discovery that could help the first space settlers gather the minerals they nee ... more 
China completes its first-ever docking in lunar orbitShanghai (AFP) Dec 6, 2020 A Chinese probe carrying samples from the lunar surface successfully docked Sunday with a spacecraft orbiting the moon, in another space first for the nation, state media reported. ... more |
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NASA chooses 4 firms for first private lunar sample collectionWashington DC (UPI) Dec 03, 2020 Four companies will collect moon rocks and dust on the lunar surface for NASA by 2023 in preparation for a human mission the following year, the space agency announced Thursday. ... more 
Special delivery: Japan space probe to bring asteroid dust to EarthTokyo (AFP) Dec 4, 2020 Call it a special delivery: after six years in space, Japan's Hayabusa-2 probe is heading home, but only to drop off its rare asteroid samples before starting a new mission. ... more 
Best region for life on Mars was far below surfaceNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 The most habitable region for life on Mars would have been up to several miles below its surface, likely due to subsurface melting of thick ice sheets fueled by geothermal heat, a Rutgers-led study ... more 
VIPER's Many Brains are Better than OneWashington DC (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 If you opened up a robot vacuum, a self-driving car, or even one of NASA's Mars rovers (which we're definitely not recommending you do!) you'd find a bunch of processors programmed with software tha ... more 
Chaotic early solar system collisions resembled 'asteroids' arcade gameAustin TX (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than 150 million-mile journey by smashing into the trunk of a red Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York. The car's owner reported that the 30-p ... more |
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 New Data Confirm 2020 SO to be the Upper Centaur Rocket Booster from the 1960's 
China's 'space dream': A Long March to the Moon and beyondBeijing (AFP) Dec 2, 2020 China's landing this week of a probe on the Moon - the first attempt by any nation to retrieve lunar samples in four decades - underlined just how far the country has come in achieving its space dream. ... more  |
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Lab developing device to help Earth dodge asteroidsRiga (AFP) Dec 2, 2020 In a corner of the campus at Riga Technical University, a team of scientists is working on technology that could one day stop asteroids from smashing into Earth. ... more 
Laboratory experiments unravelling the mystery of the Mars moon PhobosVienna, Australia (SPX) Dec 01, 2020 Of course, there is no weather in our sense of the word in space - nevertheless, soil can also "weather" in the vacuum of space if it is constantly bombarded by high-energy particles, such as those ... more 
Chinese probe lands on Moon to gather lunar samplesBeijing (AFP) Dec 2, 2020 A Chinese space probe on Wednesday began drilling on the surface of the Moon hours after landing, in an ambitious attempt to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades. ... more 
New tech can get oxygen, fuel from Mars's salty waterSt. Louis MO (SPX) Dec 01, 2020 When it comes to water and Mars, there's good news and not-so-good news. The good news: there's water on Mars! The not-so-good news? There's water on Mars. The Red Planet is very cold; w ... more  
Spain to invest 600 mn euros in artificial intelligenceMadrid (AFP) Dec 2, 2020 Spain is to invest 600 million euros (725 million dollars) in developing artificial intelligence over the next two years as part of plans to transform its national economy, the premier said Wednesday. ... more |
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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 
The most habitable region for life on Mars would have been up to several miles below its surface, likely due to subsurface melting of thick ice sheets fueled by geothermal heat, a Rutgers-led study concludes.
The study, published in the journal Science Advances, may help resolve what's known as the faint young sun paradox - a lingering key question in Mars science.
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 2, 2020 
A Chinese space probe on Wednesday began drilling on the surface of the Moon hours after landing, in an ambitious attempt to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades.
Beijing has poured billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022 and of eventually sending humans to the Moon.
The Chang'e-5 spacecraft - named for the mythic ... 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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 Rochester NY (SPX) Dec 07, 2020 
In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when carbonaceous chondrite asteroids - asteroids that are rich in water and amino acids - first arrived in the inner solar system. The research provides data that helps inform scientists about the early origi ... more |
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 01, 2020 
NASA has selected Virgin Galactic LLC of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Masten Space Systems Inc. of Mojave, California, to provide flight and integration services for payloads chosen by the agency's Flight Opportunities program, which is managed at the agency's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The two companies join four others to provide service under commercial indefinite ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 30, 2020 
China plans to launch a space telescope for research in electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves in December, according to the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The telescope, Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM), will be launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's S ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 
One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than 150 million-mile journey by smashing into the trunk of a red Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York. The car's owner reported that the 30-pound remnant of the earliest days of our solar system was still warm and smelled of sulfur.
Nearly 30 years later, a new analysis of that same Peekskill meteorite and 17 others by researchers at ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 25, 2020 
The U.S. Navy Surface War Center announced a test in which an autonomous drone was launched and landed on a moving ship as a target for laser weapons.
The tests, held last week at the NSWC Division at Port Hueneme, Calif., involved software made for the Navy by Planck Aerosystems Inc. that allow the drone to follow the ship without people controlling it, the Navy said.
The four-r ... more |
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 
Lockheed Martin has announced the U.S. Space Force has determined the fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite (SBIRS GEO-5) is complete and ready for launch in 2021.
Built in a record time and at no additional cost to the government for the upgrade, SBIRS GEO-5 is the first military space satellite built on the company's modernized, modular LM 2100 combat bus ... 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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 Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 
Computer simulations have struggled to capture the impact of elusive particles called neutrinos on the formation and growth of the large-scale structure of the Universe. But now, a research team from Japan has developed a method that overcomes this hurdle.
In a study published this month in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers led by the University of Tsukuba present simulations that acc ... more |
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 Madrid (AFP) Dec 2, 2020 
Spain is to invest 600 million euros (725 million dollars) in developing artificial intelligence over the next two years as part of plans to transform its national economy, the premier said Wednesday.
The programme would run from 2021 to 2023, starting with an initial injection of 330 million euros, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said.
Developing artificial intelligence (AI) is one of th ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
Smart cities are developing around the world. In order to turn them into sustainable and livable spaces, one of the key points is that they must respond to new mobility challenges. As days go by, betting on the introduction of a reliable and safe unmanned vehicle network on its transport routes is not as impossible.
In this context, UAV Navigation and CATEC have presented a project within ... more |
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